Using data types before they are declared.

[William Davidsen]

In article <18137 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:

| The best approach is to ignore `typedef' completely, give all
| structures and unions tags, and add typedefs afterward if you
| wish.  Thus:

  definitions are sometimes useful to reduce typing as well. For
instance in a simple linked list declaration:

	#define D_litem struct _litem

	D_litem {
	  int xa[4], xb[4];
	  D_litem *fwd, *back;
	  float lo_lim, hi_lim;
	  D_litem *execptions;
	};
	typedef D_litem litem

  This is a real typing saver when a number of structs include one
another or pointers to one another.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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