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Grokking convoluted expressionsGrokking convoluted expressionsPosted Mar 24, 2007 5:21 UTC (Sat) by RareCactus (guest, #41198)In reply to: Grokking convoluted expressions by tjc Parent article: Quotes of the week Of course there's no need for -> anyway, since there's no ambiquity between struct_var.foo and pointer_var.foo -- taking the member of a pointer doesn't make sense, so there's no need for a special operator. The compiler could just take care of this for us. It's probably too late to change. :-) Having the language infer what you mean to do by the context is often a bad idea. If people want to dereference a pointer, they should use the dereference operator, not just silently have the language fill that in. And yes, the syntax of function pointers is fubar in C.
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