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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
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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
> is in line with C++ practice, where the struct, class, or union
> keyword is almost never used outside of the declaration.  (I know,
> this is C, not C++.  But the idea that the name of a type should
> not carry unnecessary information about its representation is a
> valid one.)

Don't forget "FILE".

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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