On Monday, December 18, 2017 at 12:12:22 PM UTC-8, Dave Cheney wrote:
>
> It's true it is an exception, it's one of the few cases where the language 
> adds a pinch of syntactic sugar to make the experience more pleasurable.
>

I'd describe this more as removing a pinch of syntactic sugar. 

I can imagine without this the number one oft repeated feature request 
> would be to _not_ have to write (&t).m() all the time when you just wanted 
> to write t.m(). 
>

Maybe so, but you know where that leads. Soon those people will start 
complaining about the requirement for explicit type conversions too.

Anyway, thanks for confirming my reaction.

Jon

 

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