Thank you for the reply.
I absolutely agree that it is much easier to read and figure out what is
going on. You don't have to keep going back to the struct declaration to
find out what the fields are.
Thanks again,
Chuck
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:56:53AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 chuckw@ieee.org wrote:
>
> > struct x y = {
> > member1: x,
> > member2: y,
> > member3: z
> > };
> >
> > What is the deal with this? Does the second way have any advantage over the previous?
>
> _Much_ easier to grep for. Less pain in the ass when fields are added/removed/
> reordered.
>
> For anything with many fields (usually method tables) it's more convenient.
> And no, it's not just networking - filesystem-related code, etc. uses it
> all over the place.
>
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