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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
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Subject: Re: Overloading
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Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 10:04:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 10:04:20 1986
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In article <34200008@orstcs.UUCP> orstcs!nathan (nathan) writes:
>Just to break my own rule, I propose
>	spp->>f == (*spp)->f  == (**spp).f
>for dereferencing "handles".  Perhaps a better solution would be to define
>a right-binding dereference operator, "^", so that we could say
>	s.f ==  sp^.f == spp^^.f
>and not need any funny precedence-hacks.  Isn't originality wonderful? :-)

Actually, there *is* a right-binding dereference operator: "[0]".
(Yes, I know it's not perfect -- it won't apply to function pointers, e.g.)
(Btw, "^" is a bad choice; it changes the meaning of "x ^ - y".)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!bentley!kwh), The Walking Lint