-> and :: operators

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 19:54:19 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 18:44:50 UTC, Freddy wrote:
>> On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 04:15:42 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>> Semi-relatedly, a colleague who has heard many D sales 
>>> pitches from me over the years is recently "looking at Go" 
>>> and liking it very much. He came to me today telling me about 
>>> this awesome 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. :) )
>>>
>>> Ali
>>
>> Stole from D? You mean java right?
>
> Java doesn't have pointers.

-_-

Yeah reference are definitively not pointer. No they aren't. No I 
told you they aren't. Nope. Not even a little ! No way ! That's 
not true ! I told you that's not true. Nope !