On Friday 31 January 2025 02:22:59 Pacific Standard Time Filip via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> 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.

What do you suggest we use for smart pointers and std::optional instead of it?

  optional->content();
  uniqueptr->fn();
  smartptr->uniqueptr->optional->whatever();

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