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I love new features (lemmy.zip)

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[–] Morphit 11 points 2 weeks ago

It's important for objects that can be dereferenced. Smart pointers have methods that can be accessed with dot syntax like swap(). You can still dereference through a smart pointer using arrow syntax to access methods on the referenced type since they overload the operator->() method.