Question:
Interestingly, there are no discussions in Runet about how to correctly call "->" and "." in C++ 😉 . I propose to post this information on this forum.
On https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1580757/what-is-the-official-name-of-cs-arrow-operator most votes are for the name "->" arrow ("arrow"), others are for " structure pointer dereference operator" and "member access operator"
For separation then, apparently, it is necessary to use "indirect …" and "direct …"?
Answer:
In Jeff Alger's rather popular (as far as I know) book "The C++ Programmer's Library" they are called member selectors.
If you call them a “dot” or “arrow” in a cocktail seminar, there will be deathly silence, everyone will turn and look at you contemptuously, and in the far corner someone will drop their glass.