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Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
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From: Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net>
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kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline) writes:

> Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:<uk6ukb74c.fsf@earthlink.net>...
> > 
> > Actually, I would have used a pointer instead:
> > 
> >    S* ps = &s;
> >    ++ps->i;
> 
> Most C++ programmers would not. 

That was a typo.  I meant "could" not "would", and meant to say:

"As another example of precedence rules, I could have used a pointer
instead of a dot."

You obviously wouldn't want to declare a pointer to a locally declared
struct just to increment one of its members...