On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:55:10 -0000, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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?
Because explicit is better than implicit?
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