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Re: rms from rosettacode

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"BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> "James Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:jdf43c$aph$1@dont-email.me...
> > On 12/27/2011 08:49 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
> 
> >> If in two and a half years you have not learned what happens when you
> >> "pass an array" to a function, you have scant aptitude for this
> >> particular discipline.  Other and worthier disciplines exist; go and
> >> pursue one of those.
> >
> > I think you're both being a bit harsh on him. When I saw his comment
> > about being a newcomer, I had the same response - I remembered him being
> > a long-term participant. However, when I searched with Google groups, I
> > also found out he'd been posting here for only 30 months, and I decided
> > not to comment.
> 
> I've been posting here a lot longer, but still have problems with some
> things that should be straightforward to a C programmer.
> 
> For example, I had trouble the other night with creating a struct with
> self-referential members. I tried loads of combinations including
> forward declarations and got nowhere. I was about to post here, then
> came across this form in some code that was lying around:
> 
> typedef struct snode{
>  int value;
>  int opcode;
>  struct snode *aref,*bref;
> } node;
> 
> That worked, but how can I turn the 'struct snode*' into a much tidier 'node
> *'? This doesn't work:
> 
> typedef struct {
>  int value;
>  int opcode;
>  node *aref,*bref;
> } node;

"Much" tidier? Removing one single token from your code makes it
"much" tidier? Get real. You might have an irrational dislike of
the struct keyword, but that doesn't mean others do. I'm sure there
are as many who like to avoid typedef as much as you want to avoid 
struct. Your "tidy" would be their "opaque".

Phil
-- 
Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity
-- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), Unix Co-Creator

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rms from rosettacode superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-12-27 11:25 +0100
  Re: rms from rosettacode James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-27 06:48 -0500
    Re: rms from rosettacode superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-12-27 13:01 +0100
      Re: rms from rosettacode James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-27 07:10 -0500
        Re: rms from rosettacode superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-12-27 13:36 +0100
          Re: rms from rosettacode James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-27 10:04 -0500
    Re: rms from rosettacode Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-27 14:42 -0800
      Re: rms from rosettacode James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-27 18:46 -0500
  Re: rms from rosettacode 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-27 09:49 -0800
  Re: rms from rosettacode "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-27 18:14 +0000
    Re: rms from rosettacode superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-12-27 19:33 +0100
      Re: rms from rosettacode jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-12-27 19:04 +0000
        Re: rms from rosettacode Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-27 14:45 -0800
        Re: rms from rosettacode blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-12-27 14:57 -0800
      Re: rms from rosettacode "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-27 19:06 +0000
        Re: rms from rosettacode Bull in a China Blue Shop <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-27 16:16 -0800
      Re: rms from rosettacode James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-27 14:11 -0500
      Re: rms from rosettacode Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-27 20:13 +0000
      Re: rms from rosettacode Johann Klammer <klammerr@NOSPAM.aon.at> - 2011-12-28 00:23 +0100
      Re: rms from rosettacode 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-27 15:54 -0800
        Re: rms from rosettacode Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-27 22:53 -0800
          Re: rms from rosettacode Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-28 06:29 +0000
          Re: rms from rosettacode 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-28 02:45 -0800
  Re: rms from rosettacode Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-12-27 19:53 +0000
    Re: rms from rosettacode Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-27 20:13 +0000
    Re: rms from rosettacode superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-12-27 21:31 +0100
      Re: rms from rosettacode Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-27 20:49 -0500
        Re: rms from rosettacode superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-12-28 11:42 +0100
          Re: rms from rosettacode Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-29 08:18 -0800
        Re: rms from rosettacode superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-12-28 11:54 +0100
          Re: rms from rosettacode Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-29 04:12 +0200
            Re: rms from rosettacode superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-12-29 14:38 +0100
        Re: rms from rosettacode Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-28 02:26 -0800
          Re: rms from rosettacode Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-28 21:35 -0500
            Re: rms from rosettacode superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-12-29 14:10 +0100
        Re: rms from rosettacode James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-28 08:03 -0500
          Re: rms from rosettacode "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-28 13:32 +0000
            Re: rms from rosettacode Dr Nick <3-nospam@temporary-address.org.uk> - 2011-12-28 13:41 +0000
            Re: rms from rosettacode Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-12-28 19:29 +0000
            Re: rms from rosettacode Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-28 13:47 -0800
            Re: rms from rosettacode Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-29 04:19 +0200
      Re: rms from rosettacode Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-12-28 19:11 +0000

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