While talking about useful additions, how about this one??

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <127 at ghostwheel.UUCP> ned at ghostwheel.aca.mcc.com.UUCP (Ned Nowotny) writes:
>... I would like to see "struct *" used as a generic pointer to a structure.

I didn't understand your "explanation", but I don't see what good this
would be.  It would seem to provide an unwanted escape from strict typing.
Different structure types really ought not to have their pointers mixed
up by the programmer.