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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:19:24 -0700
From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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> >Why do you say that?  There's already precedent for using typedefs
> >for structs in, for example, the "DIR" type of <dirent.h>.  And it
> 
> An exception that proves the rule.  A real c (sic) programmer would
> never use upper case in a type or variable name :-).  <dirent.h> is
> POSIX.

Good point.  Of course, a real c (sic) programmer would have named it
"posix". :-)

> I don't know the BSD history of DIR.

Me neither, at least not for sure.  I first saw it personally in SunOS,
I think.

> I didn't completely understood phk's proposal.  You can always use
> `struct foo' for the type in offsetof() provided the struct has a
> tag.  The queue macros take a "type" arg which is actually a struct
> tag and prefix `struct ' to it.  I agree that this is wrong.

We're not so far apart in our opinions, then.  This last point is the
only one I care very much about.

John