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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: While talking about useful additions, how about this one??
Message-ID: <7169@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 24 Jan 88 21:16:43 GMT
References: <253@vsi1.UUCP> <127@ghostwheel.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <127@ghostwheel.UUCP> ned@ghostwheel.aca.mcc.com.UUCP (Ned Nowotny) writes:
>... I would like to see "struct *" used as a generic pointer to a structure.

I didn't understand your "explanation", but I don't see what good this
would be.  It would seem to provide an unwanted escape from strict typing.
Different structure types really ought not to have their pointers mixed
up by the programmer.