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C convention. Following usual C convention for declarations, declaration follows use, and the * in a pointer is written on the pointer, indicating dereferencing.For example, in the declaration int *ptr, the dereferenced form *ptr is an int, while the reference form ptr is a pointer to an int.Thus const modifies the name to its right. The C++ convention is instead to associate the * with the ...