Missed opportunities

Posted Jun 11, 2013 17:38 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: Missed opportunities by viro
Parent article: Little things that matter in language design

I'm not an expert on Algol 68 (Adriaan van Wijngaarden was probably the first, one of few, and last), but I think implicit indirection only worked in the language because it restricted the things you could do with pointers. Something like *p-- in C, for example — I don't know how that could be expressed without an explicit indirection operator.