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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question on structures
Message-ID: <6639@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 19:26:45 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  1 19:26:45 1987
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: Sturctures records

In article <1025@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> asjoshi@phoenix.UUCP (Amit S. Joshi) writes:
>    "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.

No, C doesn't have anything quite like "with".  Partly this is because
most interesting code accesses several structures, and their members
can have the same names, so "with" would be ambiguous.
However, you can obtain some relief by using struct pointers:
	register struct foo *p = &a.b.c;
	...
	access(p->d);
	...