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Re:The long arrow operator in C++ by ented on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:53AM (#14759026)
Why??????????????????????????
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Re:The long arrow operator in C++ by TeMPOraL on Thursday July 13, 2017 @02:16AM (#14759125)
"Science isn't about why - it's about why not. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much?"
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Re:The long arrow operator in C++ by std_throwaway on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:58AM (#14759050)
It's a joke.
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Re:The long arrow operator in C++ by ggdG on Thursday July 13, 2017 @02:39AM (#14759212)
They had me because it was so similar to the - very real - combinations of "conses" in the lisp world: caaaar, cdaddr, cddddr and so on. https://franz.com/support/documentation/6.0/ansicl/dictentr/...
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Re:The long arrow operator in C++ by hinkley on Thursday July 13, 2017 @02:22AM (#14759145)
Those who do not fear Poe's Law are doomed to repeat it.
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Re:The long arrow operator in C++ by Sharlin on Thursday July 13, 2017 @07:53AM (#14760516)
I think you mean "Why??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!" [1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7825055/what-does-the-c-...

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Re:The long arrow operator in C++ by amelius on Thursday July 13, 2017 @07:51AM (#14760511)
Did you overload the "?" operator?
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Re:The long arrow operator in C++ by marcosdumay on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:06AM (#14761885)
I think the parser will fail anyway. You can't overload syntax.
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