wdc@mit-eddie.UUCP (William Cattey) (12/06/83)
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. wdc%ccc@mit-mc (arpa) ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!wdc (uucp)