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[Doug Gwyn]

In article <13115 at brl-adm.ARPA> jfjr at 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;
	};