Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!taumet!steve
From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Request for Comments: Aggregate Assignment in C ...
Message-ID: <538@taumet.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 15:51:56 GMT
References: <77546@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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mayer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Mayer Goldberg) writes:

|Pascal programmers who learn C, frequently complain of C's
|lack of a "with" construct. We propose an alternative to
|adding such a keyword, through a natural extention of C's
|aggregate initialization statement.

|[example]
|struct ag {
|  int a, b, c;
|};
|struct ag my_vec = {1, 2, 3};

You could just use C++, which already allows such things via constructors.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com