On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:41:00 +1300, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
But it's not above inferring a dereferencing
operation when you call a function via a
pointer. If f is a pointer to a function,
then
f(a)
is equivalent to
(*f)(a)
If the compiler can do that for function calls,
there's no reason it couldn't do it for member
access as well.
Quite right. And I recall being confounded by the function pointer
syntax; it never fit in my mental model of how the rest of C worked.
Anyway I was not intending to defend C choices, merely to point out
an advantage this choice gave me. On a language without garbage
collection, the indirection was very important to keep in mind.
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