Does D provide automatic dereferencing for accessing members through pointers?

[Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-learn]

This is something that has been on my mind since i discovered 
this the other day. Does D provide automatic dereferencing for 
accessing members through pointers?

Here's an example:
import core.stdc.stdlib : malloc, free;

struct Foo
{
        public int bar;
}

void main(string[] args)
{
        auto foo = cast(Foo*)malloc(Foo.sizeof);

        foo.bar = 42;

        // Dereference the struct before accessing members.
        assert((*foo).bar == 42);

        // No dereferencing! eh?
        assert(foo.bar == 42);

        free(foo);
}

I've taken a look in the std lib and the second form is used a 
lot. Why don't you need to dereference the pointer 'foo' to reach 
its member 'bar'?