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From: asjoshi@phoenix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Question on structures
Message-ID: <1025@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 12:44:39 EST
Article-I.D.: phoenix.1025
Posted: Fri Oct 30 12:44:39 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Nov-87 08:38:05 EST
Reply-To: asjoshi@phoenix.UUCP (Amit S. Joshi)
Organization: Princeton Univ. Computing and Information Technology
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Keywords: Sturctures records
Summary: Is there a contruction like pascal 'with'

Hi,

I have a question on structures. It is as follows:

I have gotten really tired of typing things like a.b.c.d etc  to refer to
elements of a structure. I remember that pascal provided me with a 'with'
construction which allowed me to say something like 
    "with a.b.c {now refering to d really means use a.b.c.d } ..."
I was wondering if there is some similar contruct in C. I might be missing 
something obvious, I wonder if somebody could help me ?. I know I could of
course make a local copy in the program of every variable in the structures
and then use the local copy but that seems inefficient and would be quite
unclear.

Thanks,



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