$class->method()
^
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what's the correct terminology for this? thanks guys!
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I believe that's called the "arrow notation", assuming of course you are talking about PHP. Thats what most publications, articles and the PHP website call it, so that's what my brain says on sight.
karim79
2009-10-01 16:07:52
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i would say: dereference operator
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dereference%5Foperator
after some discussions with good commenters, the final terminology could be:
dereference and field access operator that could be shorten into: - field access operator
dweeves
2009-10-01 16:09:59
dereference is different, it provides the address that the pointer points to, not access to the underlying object
Chris Thompson
2009-10-01 16:13:48
That's the * operator...
Guffa
2009-10-01 16:15:08
see the java example where . is the derefence operator
dweeves
2009-10-01 16:15:55
Not really. If anything it would be the "access member operator" as in t's usually used as syntactic sugar to access members of a pointer, as in C/C++(That is it's a dereference operator + a field access operator) or is simply the default way to access a field, as in perl.
Falaina
2009-10-01 16:16:38
agree, the php -> is a dereference+field access operator !
dweeves
2009-10-01 16:21:32
This one sounds most 'correct' to me if, as it looks like, we're talking PHP.
thomasrutter
2010-05-27 06:05:02
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Depends on the language:
-PHP, I believe its just used to access a class members
-C or C++ on the other hand, it is used to derefernce a pointer and access a member. It's pretty much just syntactic sugar.
pointer->member
is equivalent to
(*pointer).member
ACBurk
2009-10-01 16:31:02
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In PHP it is called the T_OBJECT_OPERATOR. See the List of Parser Tokens in the PHP Manual.
Gordon
2010-09-28 18:58:15