Hey array indexing is postfix, so let's just use the old "arrays decay to pointers" staple, but obviously in reverse: typedef struct { int a;

Hey array indexing is postfix, so let's just use the old "arrays decay to pointers" staple, but obviously in reverse: typedef struct { int a; int b; } foo; int main(void) { foo one = { 1, 2 }; foo * const p = &one; p[0].b = 13; // Look ma no -> ! printf("Now we have { %d, %d }\n", one.a, one.b); return 0; } Of course one could go all nasty and flip the base and index: 0[p].b = 13; But hey that's just being silly. In all seriousness, thanks a lot for the historic review of C syntax! Very interesting, as someone who really likes C enough to (ab)use it whenever possible. I know that a->b is equivalent to (*a).b, but still the difference makes sense to my brain which first learned assembly. It's much "lighter-feeling", not having to evaluate the "entire" structure just to get to a single field. :) Weird, but I really like this little piece of syntactic sugar. Yum.