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In article <Bxyut0.Jo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> In article <id.GT2V.7OE@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
> >Personally, I think that making indirection a prefix operator was a bigger
> >mistake than any of these.

> Certainly not from the standpoint of English speakers.

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> As I understand it,
> *x in C denotes the object referred to by x, the object "found" AT x.  Thus,
> @x would have been at least a somewhat logical notation, at least relatively
> easily understood by users, as well as easy for parsing, etc.

Yes, but it makes for extra silly syntax (postfix indirection obviates the
need for ->), and makes expressions that use other indirection operators
(which are all postfix: [] and ()) much more complex:

	a = *((*f)()->baz[0]);
Instead of:
	a = f@()@.baz[0]@;
or my preferred:
	a = f^()^.baz[0]^;

I agree that C uses too many symbols, by the way. AND, OR, NOT, XOR, DIV,
and MOD make more sense in many ways. I would not want to use /\ and \/
unless you changed the escape character. I detest BEGIN and END.
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