On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > Funny you should say that in the middle of a discussion about lifetime. In > C, when you do the -> thing, you're now in a different struct with a > potentially different lifetime. If p is a local, with auto lifetime, then > so is p.x > > So, although the two are mutually exclusive, there's valuable information > hidden in the required choice.
Sure, but you can figure out whether p is a local struct or a local pointer to some other struct by looking at its declaration. Do you also need to look at every usage of it? We don't adorn every / with a marker saying whether we're dividing ints or floats, and that's something that could be potentially useful (float division of two ints being what Py3 does). Why adorn pointer usage? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
