What is this symbol

timmytheturtle · **Posted:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:46 pm

Does anyone now what this symbol is used for : ->

wtd · **Posted:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:11 pm

timmytheturtle wrote:

Does anyone now what this symbol is used for : ->

In many programming languages it's the "indirect access" operator. You use it when you have a pointer to a record (or "struct") type and wish to access its members.

In turing it's often used with classes.

code:

class A
export say

procedure say
put "hello"
end say
end A

var c : pointer to A

new A, c

c -> say

timmytheturtle · **Posted:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:28 pm

thanx wtd

Andy · **Posted:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:31 pm

its also used in pseudocode

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