25 Apr
2020
25 Apr
'20
7:18 p.m.
To make chaining of calls simpler. Write
f()->g()->h()->i()
the other way and you'll see why Bjarne asked for the shorthand.
-rob
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 11:12 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
From: Rob Pike
Convenient though the shorthand may be, it always
bothered me as
inconsistent and misleading.
As someone who made very extensive use of procedure pointers (most notably
in
upcalls, which never caught on, alas), I couldn't agree more.
Two very different things are happenging, but with the shorthand notation,
they share an identical representation. And for what? To save three
characters?
Noel