To make chaining of calls simpler. Write

f()->g()->h()->i()

the other way and you'll see why Bjarne asked for the shorthand.

-rob


On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 11:12 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>     > From: Rob Pike
>
>     > Convenient though the shorthand may be, it always bothered me as
>     > inconsistent and misleading.
>
> As someone who made very extensive use of procedure pointers (most notably
> in
> upcalls, which never caught on, alas), I couldn't agree more.
>
> Two very different things are happenging, but with the shorthand notation,
> they share an identical representation. And for what? To save three
> characters?
>
>      Noel
>
>