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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question on structures
Message-ID: <1594@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 12:04:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  3 12:04:41 1987
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In article <5673@weitek.UUCP> rober@weitek.UUCP (Don Rober) writes:
>This C solution [of declaring a struct pointer to simulate Pascal's "with"]
>... is worth whatever the cost may be.

The cost (relative to the equivalent Pascal program) may even be zero.  At
least one Pascal compiler implements the "with" statement in exactly this way.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint