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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Shadow of "shadow" (Think C question)
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Date: 28 Sep 89 13:26:17 GMT
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In article <14784@netnews.upenn.edu> hvs@pender (H.V. Sorensen) writes:
>I recently got the v. 4 of Think C (TC) and started programming. In one of my
>programs I had a strange bug, which I found was caused by using the name
>"shadow" for an integer variable. TC complains about an "illegal
>re-decleration of variable" or something like that. To reproduce the problem

	"shadow" is a member of the Style enumeration, declared in QuickDraw.h.
Since you presumably have "use <MacHeaders>" turned on in your Options, 
the MacHeaders file, including these declarations, is automatically
included at the beginning of each file, hence the conflicting declarations.

R.



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