On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 7:18 AM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:

> To make chaining of calls simpler. Write
>
> f()->g()->h()->i()
>
> the other way and you'll see why Bjarne asked for the shorthand.
>

Yea. The other way looks way too lispy...

Warner

-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
>>
>>