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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: THINK C Suggestions
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.204904.2915@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 90 20:49:04 GMT
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In article <1990Oct9.171921.29529@mtcchi.uucp> fjo@mtcchi.uucp (2667-Frank Owen(ZG90210)0000) writes:
>'p->x' references the member. If 'h' is a handle to the structure, 
>then '(*h)->x' references the member. 
>
>What's so hard about this? I'd rather stick with standard syntax whenever
>possible.

You start getting lisplike expressions like

(*(*(*thegdev)->gdPMap)->pmTable)->ctTable[i],
where
thegdev->>gdPMap->>pmTable->>ctTable[i];
is much easier to write and to read.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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