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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:55:11 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu
Subject:   Re: <sys/queue.h> 
Message-ID:  <25642.845877311@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:32:42 %2B0900." <Pine.SV4.3.93.961021100431.20316B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> 

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In message <Pine.SV4.3.93.961021100431.20316B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>, Mich
ael Hancock writes:

>It's questionable to define a typedef just to save typing the word struct.

The reason I do it is not to save 7 chars of typing.

It's because we are talking about a self-contained type that carries
with it all the operations you can perform on it.

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