When you are manipulating (mostly) one pointed-to element at a time, and incrementing the pointer itself in between, then that's quite a different mindset compa

When you are manipulating (mostly) one pointed-to element at a time, and incrementing the pointer itself in between, then that's quite a different mindset compared to using an index into an array. I agree that the subscript operator is the cleanest solution here. My point is just that I think it was missed because it's easy to overlook, rather than because, as you say, someone is deliberately trying to be too clever.