[wruza]

Otoh,

  *foo

is obviously a char. Do you put a space between dereference operator and its operand?

[itsuart]

No, I don't. If foo is a (storage of) pointer to something, to get that something from memory I use dereference operator `* so

  *foo = 'a';

will write value of 'a' into memory at address that is in foo.

  type* foo;

is declaration and

  *foo

is dereferencing.