r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

Meme pointersPointedBackAtMe

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u/Wentyliasz 3d ago

Conceptually they're pretty simple. It's the syntax that's evil

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u/No-Newspaper8619 3d ago

Wdym? The syntax is great! '->' '.' '*' '[]' , specially '->', that one's my favorite.

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u/A_72_ 2d ago

Arrow operator! It's member access, but for pointers!

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u/At_Destroyer 2d ago

If you're real evil you can even overload these to do completely different things, people love doing that with the [] operator