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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Question on structures
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Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 08:34:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 12 08:34:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 11:37:55 EST
References: <1025@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <8888@utzoo.UUCP> <608@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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|In article <8888@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
|| 	struct whatever *it = &a.b.c;
|| and then refer to it-|d or whatever.  ....
||
|| Those who do not understand Unix     |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
|| are condemned to reinvent it.        | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry

In article <608@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
|We should let the compiler read through the chain of structures instead of
|requiring the programmer to use ->'s and .'s.

  Apologies to Mr Rubin in advance: I just couldn't resist the following...

>> Those who do not understand PL/I    | Imaginary Guru @ Somewhere
>> are condemned to reimplement it.    |{place,place,place}!Somewhere!guru



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