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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: style
Message-ID: <7770@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 26 Apr 88 17:28:15 GMT
References: <13115@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <13115@brl-adm.ARPA> jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa (Freedman) writes:
> 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?

Typedef was added to C after struct tags.  For the most part it is
more convenient to use typedef.  Sometimes it is easier to use tags,
though, as in
	struct my_tag {
		struct my_tag *link;
		data_t data;
	};