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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>
>> [...] Use a typedef to give the struct its own name, so that you
>> don't have to write 'struct words' everywhere, eg:
>>
>>    typedef struct {char *word; double wordpf;} Words;
>>
>> Now you can write
>>
>>    Words **wordrec = NULL;
>>
>> or sizeof(Words) etc.
>
> That's a perfectly valid choice.  It has the advantage that the
> name of the type is a single identifier.
>
> Personally, though, I prefer to refer to the type as "struct
> whatever" rather than inventing a new name for it.  My point of
> view is that if you define a struct with a tag, it already has a
> perfectly good name.  [...]

If a struct is defined with a tag, there is no doubt that the
type already has a name.  Whether that name is a perfectly good
name is another question altogether.