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From: jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa (Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: style
Message-ID: <13115@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 26 Apr 88 13:02:05 GMT
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  C provide tags and typdefs ie

I can make the following declaration

struct some_tag_name {
                  some_more_stuff
                }

or 

typedef struct {

                 some_stuff
  
               } some_type_name.

I can do similar things with enum.

 Now, as a former Pascal programmer I like the typedef method
MUCH better than the tag method. My question is this: Is
there any reason one method is preferred over the other?
(except for declarations for structure which will include
pointers -for trees, lists,etc)

Jerry Freedman, Jr      "Love is staying up all night 
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