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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question on structures
Message-ID: <3022@bunker.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 09:26:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 09:26:44 1987
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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.

No, there is nothing in C like Pascal's 'with'.
But you can use:
	#define d a.b.c.d
and "now referring to d really means use a.b.c.d".  You have to
do this with each member name you use, but that's not too bad if
you have an editor which makes it easy to make several copies of
the same line.  Then where the end of the 'with' is, you could put
	#undef d

Or you can use
	#define W(x) a.b.c.x
		W(d) = 1;
		W(e) = 2;
	etc.

Hope this helps.

Gary Samuelson

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