"." normally only works on objects (/ instances of a struct), "->" is for pointers:

VECTOR temp; temp.x = 10;
VECTOR* temp; temp->x = 10;

Lite-C detects automatically whether "." is correct or should be "->", but you can deactivate this help with some pragma-define if you want to.

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