Thread: Team 67 C++ Example Code
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Re: Team 67 C++ Example Code
-> and . can not be interchanged.

x->y() is a shortcut for (*x).y(), so you use . when x is an object, and -> when x is an pointer to an object. It is exactly the same as accessing members of a structure in C.
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