C, the programming language

 

operator precedence: structure member operator . is higher than pointer dereference operator *  ;

If p is a pointer to a structure, then
p->member-of-structure   refers to the particular member.  -> is also higher than * ;

The two operator above (. and ->), together with () for function calls and [] for subscripts, are at the top of
the precedence hierarchy and thus bind very tightly.