On 1/31/25 13:22, Filip via Std-Proposals wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I’m wondering about the possibility of removal or deprecation of ->
> operator in favor of automatic dereference by ‘.’
>
> If I remember correctly in tcc, compiler has a single if to check if
> they are used correctly and could automatically use the correct operation.
>
> Are there any good reasons to keep that syntax?
> In my experience it’s just an annoying part of early c that is maintained.

Operators . and -> have distinct meanings for smart pointers and
iterators. I don't see how they can be unified.