Use arrays of 1 to avoid using '.' and '&'. So if you have a structure, say:

    struct foo { int a, b; };

A function that works on the structure looks like this, you use '->':

    void pr(struct foo *n) { printf("%d %d\n", n->a, n->b); }

But when you make an instance of this structure, you have to use this different syntax:

    struct foo p;
    p.a = 1;  // Yuck!
    pr(&p); // Bad!

But you can do this instead:

    struct foo p[1];
    p->a = 1; // Very nice..
    pr(p); // Yes!