Re: request for member in something not a structure or union

"pete" <pfiland@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> deepak wrote:
>> Hi Experts,
>>
>> I'm getting this compilation error while trying to access a member in
>> structure.
>> at what time we will get this error message?
>
> When you use a dot operator (.)
> when you should be using an arrow operator (->)
> instead.
>

now, a mystery, maybe somone will know:
why exactly is it that . and -> were originally made to be separate 
operators anyways?...

what exactly is the cost of, say, a compiler implementor being lazy and 
treating both cases as equivalent? (well, apart from maybe the risk of a 
user writing code which will promptly break if used on a more 
standards-conformant compiler...).


> -- 
> pete