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From: chips@usfvax2.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Structure constants
Message-ID: <843@usfvax2.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 09:39:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: usfvax2.843
Posted: Sat Sep 26 09:39:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 11:56:06 EDT
Organization: AT Engineering, Tampa, FL
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About a year ago, I took an advanced C course conducted by Thom Plum.  While
I had his ear, I suggested that X3J11 include structure constants in the
draft standard:

	typedef struct { double r, i; } COMPLEX;

	extern COMPLEX get_complex(), add_complex();

	main()
	{
		COMPLEX a, b;

		a = get_complex_from_somewhere();

		/* Note the second parameter to this function call: */
		b = add_complex(a, (COMPLEX){1.0, 1.0} );
	}

Any thoughts from netlanders?

(Note that no new error messages are necessary, since most of the same work is
done in inititialization of auto aggregates, which is already in the draft.)

Anyone moved?  Feel free to lobby X3J11... :-)

P.S.  Don't bother posting "C++ can do that" articles;
      this isn't comp.lang.c++.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg            "chip%ateng@UU.NET"  or  "uunet!ateng!chip"
A.T. Engineering, Tampa    CIS: 73717,366    Last Chance: "chips@usfvax2.UUCP"
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