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Re:C uses "&" for the address-operator because 'ampersand so... by masklinn on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:25PM (#37849121)
AFAIK it works like that in most modern languages with pointers: Rust, Zig, even Go will implicitly deref pointers on attribute access.
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