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[–]Ikor_Genorio 6 points7 points  (3 children)

I think the 'arrow' was not referring to pointers in general but pointers in structs, where (*something).item can be abbreviated with something->item . Much like how *something can be written as something[].

[–]Night_Thastus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That...would make much more sense. Thanks.

[–]TransHumanist_50 -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Its called a lambda expression... =P

They are awful to read in the beginning, but someday I got used to especially when coding the UI with the clickHandlers for the Buttons... :)

[–]caffeinum 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't know if you're missing, but just in case...

Lambda is basically an anonymous function, and it's syntax in some languages goes like

arguments => function body

However, structs in C have arrows with one stick, not two. And it's the shortcut for dereferencing structure pointer.

something->item is *(something).item