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From: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question on structures
Message-ID: <1407@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 12:57:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 12:57:26 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 01:53:22 EST
References: <1025@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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Keywords: Sturctures records

In article <1025@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> asjoshi@phoenix.UUCP (Amit S. Joshi) writes:
$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 tend to do things like:

struct { union b { struct c { int d,e; }}} s;

#define  d   b.c.d

for many of the leaf members,
which greatly reduces the 'noise' typing. I also frequently have complicated
structs that have unions and pointers to other structs in them, and I am
constantly modifying the structure. Since I rarely modify the purpose of
the leaf members, usually only the #define needs to be edited.