Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ANSI C idea: structure literals
Message-ID: <1988Mar3.183939.945@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: ANSI, structure literals
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <56@vsi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 88 18:39:39 GMT

The only specific problem I see with this scheme is that there is no
specific indication of the type of the structure literals.  This is unwise;
there are situations where it's not trivial to guess from context.

There is also a more general problem.  To approximate the probable response
of X3J11:  "Need not convincingly shown; existing constructs can be used to
same effect; lack of implementation experience in C."
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