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From: rober@weitek.UUCP (Don Rober)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question on structures
Message-ID: <5673@weitek.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 22:57:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 22:57:59 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 06:58:30 EST
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Reply-To: rober@weitek.UUCP (Don Rober)
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>A simple solution (sligthly inefficient). Rewrite
>	with a.b.c begin
>		d = 10 ;
>	end
>as
>	{
>	 struct <whatever> *s = &a.b.c ;
>	 s->d = 10 ;
>	}
A vastly superior solution in that there is nothing implicit happening.  The 
typical Pascal error is that it is never clear what 'd' is a reference to.
(for example, declare a local variable by the name of 'd' - which one is 
referenced?) This C solution obviates the problem and is worth whatever the
cost may be.
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