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From: mlight@hpiacla.HP.COM (Mike Light )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: typedef laxity
Message-ID: <4940002@hpiacla.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 88 20:20:27 GMT
References: <1070@maynard.BSW.COM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard
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<>>It seems to me someone should complain about this code:
<>>
<>>	typedef int TEMPERATURE;
<>>	typedef int PRESSURE;
<>>
<>>	TEMPERATURE tx, ty;
<>>	PRESSURE px, py;
<>>
<>>	ty = py;		/* type clash */

{Well, I have gotten several mail messages and seen several followups all
{saying the same thing:  "That's just the way it works."  As opposed to
{saying "It works this way because of <insert good idea>".

Typedef is little different than a macro substitution for type definitions.
It wasn't meant to create a "new" type somehow different or incompatible
with other types.  Sounds to me like you need Pascal.

{Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.

Mike Light -- Hewlett-Packard Co.   ..!hpda!hpiacla!mlight