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From: CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK C Suggestions
Message-ID: <90283.224058CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 02:40:58 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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A better solution to this "problem" (that is, trying to get C to automagically
dereference repeated handle references for speed) is not to extend C's
operator set (which brings up all those nasty problems of parsing that
people have been screaming about recently :) -- instead, why not just
extend C to have a construct similar to Pascal's WITH statement?

Personally, I find this one of the most glaring omissions in C.  It's
pretty icky to have to type 17 lines of "(**myHandle).whatever = something;"
instead of a nice pretty "WITH myHandle^^ do begin....end."  And, since
it's a bracketed construct, C has an easy time figuring out when to do
the dereferencing.

Maybe we should move this discussion to comp.lang.c, where it belongs....

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