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From: throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: postfix indirection
Summary: "It's in 'dere!"
Message-ID: <0201@sheol.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 18:45:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: sheol.0201
References: <2765@levels.sait.edu.au> <6982@ficc.uu.net>
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- peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
- [...] I wish indirection was postfix. In
- "My Ideal C" this would be !p^[i][j][k]!.
- (I'm going to start a C-FUTURES mailing list soon, for discussions of
- this nature. Mail to peter@ficc.uu.net if you want to join.)

Hmmmmm.  Why wait for the future?  I use the standard postfix indirection
operator for these cases, "[0]".  (Of course, you still have to declare
pointers funny, but you can dereference 'em postfix.)  Peter's example
becomes:
                    p[0][i][j][k]
instead of
                    (*p)[i][j][k]

(Golly, even the same number of characters...)

No, seriously folks, I actually do do this to pointers sometimes when
I "want postfix indirection".  It can make stuff easier to read.

Sometimes.
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Wayne Throop <backbone>!mcnc!rti!sheol!throopw or sheol!throopw@rti.rti.org