Compound Dereference Operators

Anyone else thought they should've included these in the C/C++ standard? I mean, we already have += -= >>= and all the rest...


a .= b /* a = a.b */
a ->= b /* a = a->b */

>>3
For linked lists, trees, and other linky structures, it's very useful. Wouldn't be hard to add to the parser either. I'm surprised GCC doesn't have them already.