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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Dereferencing and style guides
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On 09/30/2013 09:49 AM, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 30.09.13 14:51, Robert A Duff wrote:
>> However, the ".all" syntax is just plain weird.  "All what?"  It makes
>> no sense to me.
>
> I take it you are deliberately being forgetful? ;-)
>
> All what? All [components] of the referenced object, of course.

Right. "All of whatever the access value designates" is how I would put it.

Returning to the OP, I would say it depends on what you want to emphasize to the 
reader. If you use ".all" when it isn't required, you're emphasizing that this 
is a dereference of an access value. If you omit it, you're emphasizing what 
you're doing with the dereferenced value: indexing, selection of a component or 
operation, and so on.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"You can never forget too much about C++."
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