I’m not sure if this is serious or not and that scares me.
Rest of the world: We’re deprecating C++ due to lack of memory safety. Please consider doing something for safety.
C++ commite: Here’s a new convenient operator to make it easier to do a potentially unsafe, multi-level pointer dereference.
I honestly don’t know why they even have -> instead of just a dot like everyone else. The compiler knows whether it’s a record, object, pointer, or any level of pointer to pointers.
Why make the programmer do the donkey work?
It’s important for objects that can be dereferenced. Smart pointers have methods that can be accessed with dot syntax like
swap(). You can still dereference through a smart pointer using arrow syntax to access methods on the referenced type since they overload theoperator->()method.Operator overloading allows you to redefine what each operator does. It’s essential to achieve a truly fucked up code base
