Uses for non-unique names in structures.

[William Cattey]

	It is a neat feature all right, but I hope you never
decide to port programs to other C implementations with it 
present.  It is beautiful, and useful, and not portable!  
The big problem I see with it is that it is such a neat feature
that code written with it will get *ugly* when it has to be replaced
with a more portable construct.  My personal opinion is to use
a more portable syntax in the first version and not risk uglification.

	I believe that C compilers for version 7 and earlier
complained about non-unique names for elements in a structure
regardless of type.

	If neither portability nor future uglification matter
then use non-unique element names with depraved abandon.

Yow!  Am I Emily Post yet?  :-)
W. Cattey.
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