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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question on scope of struct/union tags
Message-ID: <6916@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 5 Jan 88 22:54:28 GMT
References: <3723@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3723@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
-I would prefer if the tag "s" was redefined immediately after its
-appearance, so it can be used inside the {...} to make a self-
-referential structure.  This seems like what most people would expect.
-It also gives the same result as when there is no global "struct s".
-The 1 Oct 86 standard does not seem to require this result, though.

I think this has been fixed in the current draft.  Lots of things
pertaining to "incomplete types" and other aspects of typing were
cleaned up.