On Thu, May 4, 2023, 08:15 Timur Doumler <cpp_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On 4 May 2023, at 14:27, Edward Catmur <ecatmur_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Deprecate ** in one cycle, make it an operator token in the next. Like we
> did for [,].
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> Except that this would break A LOT of code. I used to work on a scientific
> code base where multiple dereferences like `***` were all over the place.
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You could still make those work by relaxing maximal munch, like >> in
templates. The only thing that would change meaning would be a**b (and
a***b etc) , which is poor style anyway.

Cheers,
> Timur
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