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

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Bart  <bc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>So the left side side of "." is not just a struct type, but any chain
>of pointers to a struct, multi-dereferenced as necessary to get at the
>struct that "." needs? (This shows up a weakness in -> which can only
>deal with one dereference at a time.)

>Workable, but just seems to lack a certain amount of rigour.

If it were just done for ".", it would seem a bit inconsistent.  But
Algol 68 always performed any of a certain set of "coercions"
necessary to get a suitable type.  If you assigned (the equivalent of)
an int *** to an int, it would dereference it three times.

-- Richard
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