Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!think!barmar From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: why p->member ? Message-ID: <25559@think.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 88 20:43:40 GMT References: <16734@adm.ARPA> <474@sp7040.UUCP> <3740@omepd> Sender: usenet@think.UUCP Reply-To: barmar@kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 In article <3740@omepd> merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) writes: ]But, the real question (as far as it has been discussed in lang.c, I ]guess) is "if only pointers are used in ->, and structs in ., howcum ]the compiler can't figure it out?" ]Because, it is not PL/1. I don't want an automatic conversion. Ahem! PL/I refuses to do this particular conversion, too. In fact, I think PL/I originated the "->" syntax for pointers (did Algol-60 have pointers?). Barry Margolin Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar