Is this legal C++?

[Martin v. Loewis]

> For all these reasons, we just turned down a C++ extension that Ulrich
> suggested.  I feel similarly about your suggestion: it's not a bad
> idea in language design, but it's not C++, either.

I think it *is* a bad idea. If you want to implicitly dereference any
pointer-to-member if it happens to appear in a function where it could
be applied, then assigning to such pointer to member is very difficult.

Regards,
Martin