Asterisk sometimes on variable type, sometimes on variable name. Why?

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Published on 2010-03-16T05:40:34Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 5:46 UTC
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In Objective-C, I've seen, for example:

UIPickerView *tweetPicker

and

UIPickerView* tweetPicker

What does the asterisk mean (I know, the first part is a dupe...) and why does it go on different parts of the deceleration in different contexts?

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