Postion of & or * to denote reference type or pointer

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Published on 2010-03-26T19:21:37Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 20:13 UTC
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I was wondering whether to put the ampersand (&) after the variable type or before the variable name. To put it simply, I want to know which one is the conventional style or the standard, or if it is entirely down to preference.

int &x;
int *x;

or

int& x;
int* x;

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