-> and :: operators

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 04:15:42 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Go feature where you just type a dot after a pointer and the 
> language is so great that it works! You don't need to type 
> (*p).member. Isn't Go awesome!
>
> I responded "yep, it's a great feature and those gostards will 
> never admit that they took that feature from D." (There is 
> probably earlier precedence but it felt great to say it to my 
> friend. :) )

Just about all higher languages does this, since the reference 
type does not have members. Simula too.

But this unfortunately breaks down when you add smart-pointers, 
which makes this approach unsound since pointer-type members 
collide with object members.

So C++ actually got this right by requiring explicit 
dereferencing.