Is this a bug?

[Andrey via Digitalmars-d-learn]

> not a bug.
>
> b.f[10] is indexing the pointer to the array, not the array 
> itself.
>
> b.f[0][10] is indexing the array (with the 10), but I would 
> argue it is better to write *(b.f)[10] so as to be clear that f 
> is not an array.

thank you, John.

compiler said that '*(b.f)[10]' is deprecated, and I should write 
like this

void foo()
{
    Type3 b;
    Type1  d;
    d = *(b.f[10]).ptr;
}

which looks completely weird for me...

> What is the reason you are using a pointer to a struct 
> containing a pointer to a static array? It's often not 
> necessary to work like that.

it is just a sample... in real code the struct contains a lot of 
fields