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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: enums in structs
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:19:44 -0700
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 7:57:16 PM UTC-5, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> If "red", "green", and "blue" had scopes restricted to the struct
>> definition, you wouldn't be able to refer to their names outside the
>> struct definition.  C has no mechanism for prefixing an enumeration
>> constant with the name of a type.
>
> You can't refer to their names outside the context of an object of the
> appropriate structure type.

Look back at the example (which you snipped, of course).  "red",
"green", and "blue" are enumeration constants, not member names.

[SNIP]

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