Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember declaring structs in C being rather weird.

  The problem with C structs is that whenever you want to use them, you
have to say so. In other words, this works in C++, but not in C:

struct Foo { whatever; };

void bar()
{
    Foo foo; // Doesn't work in C
}

  Instead, you have to write:

    struct Foo foo; // Works in both C++ and C

  However, there's a workaround in C (which also works in C++, because of
the backwards compatiblity):

typedef struct { whatever; } Foo;

  Now you can use "Foo" without having to put the "struct" before it every
time.

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                                                          - Warp

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