• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    9 days ago

    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?

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      3 days ago

      Operator overloading allows you to redefine what each operator does. It’s essential to achieve a truly fucked up code base