为什么我们使用点/箭头运算符来访问 c 中的结构变量

Question

I dont kno why we are using this to access variables. Is there any standards? if there what are they?

#include <stdio.h>
struct st {
  int i;
  char ch;
} s;
int main() {
  s.i = 10;
  printf("%d\n", s.i);
}

Answer 1

The dot operator and the arrow operator are not the same:

The dot operator takes the attribute of a structure.
The arrow operator takes the attribute of the structure, the pointer you are using refers to.

Answer 2

These two lines are the same thing:
(*(*(*a).b).c).d

a->b->c->d

It just seems more practical and better to look at, otherwise you'd have to use the one at the top which seems very hard to read, so we use the -> operator because it's much simpler.