[tsimionescu]

I haven't used Pascal, so I can't comment on that.

user1->name : "user1 arrow name"

(*user1).name : "value of user1 dot name"

x += y : "x plus equals y" or "x increases by y"

x << y : "x left shifted by y"; the C++ overload for output streams is a terrible one that also doesn't have a name.