convention for declaring pointers?

[Rik]

jwe,

Is there a convention for whether to cuddle the '*' for pointers with the
variable name, variable type, or neither?  I noticed in
liboctave/array/idx-vector.h declarations such as the following

idx_range_rep * r = dynamic_cast<idx_range_rep *> (rep);

I started to change this to

idx_range_rep *r = ...

but then I realized that maybe the extra space is good.  It is consistent
with the rest of Octave coding conventions which tends to emphasize extra
whitespace for readability.  The space between the name of a function and
the opening parenthesis is an example of this openness.

--Rik