Re: Do we care if C compilers start allowing "." on pointers?

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM David Malcolm <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-01-10 at 07:02 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Currently, given a pointer "p", C allows p->a but not p.a.  There is a
> > proposal from C++ [1] that is being considered for C.
> >
> > Do we care?
>
> Is the proposal likely to actually happen to either C++ or C?

Seems unlikely to me.  I don't think it's worthwhile in general to
look at papers targeting the "incubator" study groups, which serve as
a first pass to weed out less interesting proposals and recommend
early improvements for papers that move on to the next step.

Jason