Variable types with * prefix

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@bojan_jurca

Declaring a variable = reserve a piece of memory for it and give tihs memory a name.

No. Declaring by itself does not allocate the memory unless it’s the definition.

@bojan_jurca

Defining a variable = telling the compiler that a variable of a certain type (amount of memory) is going to be used but the memory itself is not allocated yet

You got it reversed

@bojan_jurca

Initializing the variable = assigning it a value for the first time.

It’s a bit of a shortcut because the first assignment otherwise would be also an initialization by your terms.

it’s at definition time, which is also happpen to be the first time