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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Is there any place to talk about language features?
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:19:32 -0700
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Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> The feature I am thinking about is "default initializers"
>
> Today we can do:
>
> struct Point {   int x;   int y; };
> struct Point pt1 = { 1,  2 };
>
> and this is useful when the initialization change by instance basis.
> But, for some types the initialization is the same or it have common
> initiation part for all instances.  To avoid specify the common
> initialization everywhere the solution is create a macro.
>
> struct Z { int type; };
> #define Z_INIT { 4 }
>
> struct Z z1 = Z_INIT;

A minor point: this can be done without a macro:

    struct Z { int type; };
    const struct Z Z_INIT = { 4 };
    struct Z z1 = Z_INIT;

[...]

(comp.std.c might be a more appropriate place for this, but IMHO
comp.lang.c is ok.)

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