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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: THINK C Suggestions
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.020415.16763@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 90 02:04:15 GMT
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In article <1990Oct8.154744.15837@nntp-server.caltech.edu> palmer@nntp-server.caltech.edu (David Palmer) writes:
>Here's a suggestion for the next 'Think C'.  Allow the operator '->>' to
>dereference handles, just as '->' dereferences pointers.
>
>This, of course, is non-standard, and so there
>should be a 'preferences' item to disallow it, but it would make things
>much more pleasant.
>
>(The reason why '->>' should be used instead of '-->' is because it
>shows up better, and it would not be parsed as a post-decrement
>greater-than combination.)

No, instead as minus shift right.  You can't win.  If you make a smart
compiler, you can recognize handles to structs and add the extra de-reference
automagically-- I'd like to see that (in both THINK and MPW.)

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