At the same time, having the access to .ptr be explicit is way better than in C, where the variable you are adding 1 to may or may not be a pointer. Having the

At the same time, having the access to .ptr be explicit is way better than in C, where the variable you are adding 1 to may or may not be a pointer. Having the pointer nature of the operation locally explicit is way better than having to scroll back to find the type of the variable.