ref is pointer sugar?

[Pluto]

== Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schveiguy at yahoo.com)'s article
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:51:31 -0400, Pluto <pluto at planets.not> wrote:
> > Are these equivalent?
> >
> > S s;//struct
> >
> > void f(ref S s){s.x++;}
> > f(s);
> >
> > void f2(S* s){(*s).x++;}
> > f2(&s);
> They are pretty much equivalent.  I think the code generated actually will
> be exactly the same.  However, the compiler treats ref differently than
> pointers.  For example, ref is allowed in the safe subset of D, and
> pointers are not.
> Note that you do not need to dereference pointers to access their
> pointed-to members.  i.e.:
> void f2(S* s){s.x++;}

Where is this in the spec? I can't find it. Still used to ->