On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:01 AM J Decker <d3ck0r_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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>>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 9:47 AM Gašper Ažman <gasper.azman_at_[hidden]>
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>>>> I hear you that it is technically possible to make . behave the
>>>> same way as -> for raw pointers - but perhaps you should ask yourself why
>>>> Ritchie and Kernighan didn't do it. I am quite sure they saw the
>>>> opportunity. Perhaps they thought it was a dangerous idea?
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> I couldn't really speak to K&R or BS... but I can actually, I'm not sure
> they could have, because they were code->assembly, and the two are quite
> different on how you have to get that address... but now there's
> code->meta->optimizing pipeline->assembly. There's something like it
> didn't really occur to me, I used K&R pamphlet-book, and I actually caught
> that '->' reads the memory location and . uses the base of a more
> statically allocated thing... but then that's from stepping through code
> with turbo C's debugger maybe.
>

A tail call between two fucntions in an error state looks like infinite
recursion? Except the call to the other would guarantee to not trigger the
other error path again?

isStruct() { if( is !pointer && object ) { look up name toekn } else { call
isPointer }
isPointer { if( -> ) { if is pointer ) { look up next name token}} else {
call is Struct }

something like that? so probably better to just gernerate an exception
there?


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