Hello,
I have to say I would not much be in favor to have that feature in C,
usually people try to make the fact that something is a pointer very
visible in C.

But then also:


> C++ Standard section 8.5.1.5 Class member access
> add:

> if the first expression of (dot) is a pointer [to an object], then
> E1.E2 is converted to (*(E1)).E2 .

Doing like this would certainly be the wrong way for C.

The two operations `E1->E2` look very similar `(*(E1)).E2` but are not
the same, in particular when evaluated in a thread context. The first
is an lvalue that is guaranteed to only access the member, where the
second forms the `*E1` object as a whole, and so may race with
accesses to other members of the same object.

Thanks
Jens

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