Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Addressing struct without ->
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.175047.7360@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <91010.084408NIBMSCM@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 17:50:47 GMT

In article <91010.084408NIBMSCM@NDSUVM1.BITNET> NIBMSCM@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes:
>with some other languages, such as Pascal, I had the capability to use
>the 'using' keyword, giving the address of a structure and then address
>the elements of that structure without the necessity of using the
>ptr->element notation (could simply use element).
>  Could anyone out there tell me how I can implement this in 'C' ...

Can't be done (in any convenient way) in standard C.
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