java - Array brackets after variable name [duplicate]

Question

I have recently been thinking about the difference between the two ways of defining an array:

1. int[] array
2. int array[]

Is there a difference?

Answer 1

They are semantically identical. The int array[] syntax was only added to help C programmers get used to java.

int[] array is much preferable, and less confusing.

Answer 2

There is one slight difference, if you happen to declare more than one variable in the same declaration:

int[] a, b;  // Both a and b are arrays of type int
int c[], d;  // WARNING: c is an array, but d is just a regular int

Note that this is bad coding style, although the compiler will almost certainly catch your error the moment you try to use d.