[CyberDildonics]

That's not so much the point:

It is the point since you compared two things that have different uses, then said you can't call an operator on a pointer, which is wrong.

[jstimpfle]

You don't get it. That's because you still don't understand some basic things about the language. There is no method call here on a pointer expression. There is only a call on a value expression.