while one can get away with the latter, the former is syntactically 
correct. 

Isildur

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Aaditya Rai wrote:
> >> In KNF, do we prefer either
> >> 
> >> 	(*platform.cons_init)();
> >> or
> >> 	platform.cons_init();
> >> 
> >> when cons_init is a function pointer?
> 
> I personally prefer the latter :-) the fact that it is x.z() already makes
> it obvious that its a fn ptr. I do think that the former is a bit "noisy"
> (as someone pointed out)
> Aaditya.
>