[creativemonkeys]

"-->" is not an operator in the C language, it's just a way of writing the unary operator "--" and comparison operator ">" together without any whitespace between them, since whitespace is ignored by the lexer.

[creativemonkeys]

Have any of you downvoters read the C grammar? There is no --> operator in C. I'll never understand some people.

[richbell]

I didn't downvote you but I presume others did because the StackOverflow post I linked to essentially says the same thing.