> Also i think that the reason C has -> is because in C pointer de-reference is a prefix whereas in Pascal is a suffix so without it you'd either have to write (*ptr).foo. Pascal avoids that by having both be suffix operators.
That distinction comes from early C (pre-ANSI / K & R C), where structures were really definitions of offsets (and said offsets were global, you couldn't have different 'offsets' for a member with the same name in different structs).
Say you had a struct 'struct mystruct {int a;int b;int c};':
You could do '200.b' to access the value at the 'b' offset of the memory location '200' ( '*(int*)( 200 + offsetof(struct mystruct,b) )' or '((struct mystruct*)200)->b' )
And '200->b' would access offset 'b' of the memory pointed to by memory location '200' ( '*(int*)( *(intptr_t*)200 + offsetof(struct mystruct,b) )' or '(*(struct mystruct**)200)->b' )
I've been using a free tool by voidtools tool called "Everything" for years, it provides almost-instant search on windows NTFS volumes: https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/
Thanks. I used it years ago but it didn't suit my needs. I haven't found an indexing tool that does.
It's the difference between synchronous indexing that's baked into the system (as in file system metadata structures and database indexes, which update at the same time your data is changed) vs. fragile add-ons that index asynchronously (which in general I find tend to be too slow to update, missing results, and prone to breaking).
while the word 'master' can indeed be used in the sense of "master and slave", its use in git is more akin to the use of 'master' in "master record", and doesn't refer to 'ownership' in any way
