@iron_bug @d_pechkin

It's just how you which to represent the semantical aspect:
int* x
Focuses on "x is of type 'pointer of int'"

int *x
focuses on "dereferencing the pointervariable delivers an int"

Rest is more ideological driven (informatic costructs computer languages to serve humans, not humans to server computer language ;) ).
And the cat in the picture is voting for (1) as it manipulates
int * ptr into intptr by eating up the *