-> and :: operators

[Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 21:21:10 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> 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:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> 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 !

I guess you could argue it that way, but I don't see references 
and pointers as the same. Similar, yes, but not the same.