-> and :: operators

[Warwick via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 13:50:18 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 13:05:41 UTC, Warwick wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 09:43:04 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
>>> On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 19:48:39 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
>>> wrote:
>> At the risk of sounding like a broken record the Delphi 
>> variant of Object Pascal started doing that some time around 
>> Delphi 4 or Delphi 5 IIRC. (So mid to late 90s).
>>
>> IE. You accessed members with the dot operator whether it was 
>> an object (like D Delphi's objects are heap based / reference 
>> semantics), a struct, or a pointer to a struct.
>
> You should have elaborated then. The other guys talked about 
> the invention of reference types, so I assumed you did as well.

Sorry I've been on pills to prevent premature elaboration. :-)