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| From | "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Am I being too C++ like? |
| Date | 2012-01-20 13:44 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <jfbr4g$47j$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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"Keith Thompson" <kst-u@mib.org> wrote in message news:lnfwfbxfcx.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org... > "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> writes: >> "Jorgen Grahn" <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> wrote in message >>> I'd skip the typedef -- if something is a struct, I want to see >>> that immediately. People typedef the weirdest things, so I feel I >>> cannot assume such a name is a struct, and not a pointer or something. >> >> Couldn't you make exactly the same argument for *anything* defined with >> typedef? > > Not quite. > > A typedef for a struct type just creates a new name (like "foo") for > something that already has a name (like "struct foo"). It typically > provides no new information, nor does it hide information that > should be hidden; But if I create a new typedef T, and then declare: T a; I can't see at a glance whether T is a number, struct, and anything else. That seemed to be the point of JG's remark. In this case it *does* hide some information. -- bartc
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