On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 5:53:14 AM UTC+12, MRAB wrote: > C uses "->" for dereferencing a pointer to the member of a struct.
The only reason why “s->f” was added was because “(*s).f” was considered an unwieldy thing to have to write all the time. And the only thing that made that unwieldy was that pointer dereferencing was a prefix operator, rather than postfix as in Pascal. > Pascal, on the other hand, dereferences with a postfixed "^", so that > would be "p^.m". And you will notice that nobody felt the need for an alternative form to abbreviate that. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
