c++ faq - When do I use a dot, arrow, or double colon to refer to members of a class in C++?

Coming from other C-derived languages (like Java or C#) to C++, it is at first very confusing that C++ has three ways to refer to members of a class: a::b, a.b, and a->b. When do I use which one of these operators?

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