pointers, functions, and uniform call syntax

[Maxim Fomin]

On Monday, 3 September 2012 at 12:12:46 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
> I was playing around with a very big struct, and told myself I 
> wanted it allocated on the heap. This meant I was now 
> manipulating S* instead of an S.
>

I answered this question in BZ couple of days ago in an issue 
8603 which was filed after discussion about references in NG. 
Short answer: the equivalence of accessing members through 
pointers and values doesn't lead to equivalence of pointers and 
values in function parameters and one of possible problems is 
implicit dereference of pointers.