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From: mvm@caesun6.harris-atd.com (Matt Mahoney)
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Subject: Re: overloading operator . and ->
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Date: 25 Mar 91 14:59:36 GMT
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In article <4608@lupine.NCD.COM> rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes:

>Of course, it would be one thing if we only *called* -> an "operator",
>but unfortunately the language (as now defined) further compounds
>this sillyness by allowing "->" to be overloaded!

Then again, overloading [] (as in a[i]) is useful (IMHO), but in C
that's just syntactic sugar for *(a+i).  Allowing -> to be overloaded
is just being consistent.

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