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From: rbj@icst-cmr (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: WITH statement
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Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 11:29:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 18 11:29:46 1986
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Re: WITH statement:
	The ambiguous condition scares me too, and I think I could live
	much better with being able to take the address of the thing
	and then using it, like:

	       recpointer := &recarray[selector];
	       ...
	       recpointer^.foo := 1;
	       recpointer^.bar := 2;

The ambiguity is worse than you might think. I happen to think that
all structure members that are logically the same thing ought to
have the same name. This was not allowed in original C because
structures shared the same name space. On the other hand, you could
use any structure member with any structure type.

I am glad I learned C after the change. Requiring different names
for the same item is another example where C outgrew Pascal.
	
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