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		wat10000 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zig's dot star syntax (value.) You mean `foo = bar[10]`? That’s equivalent to `bar[10][0][0]`, i.e. the array element access is done first, then the retrieved element is dereferenced twice. I’m quite confident in this, but I’m a systems programmer working in C++, so that’s my bread and butter.

throwawaymaths 10 months ago [–]

it's hard to disambiguate from bar[0][0][10]...

wat10000 10 months ago | [–]

Sure, I see your point and suffix does seem like the better option. But for people who do a lot of C, it’s not an issue.

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