Re: Style convention question

[Mark Mielke <mark mark mielke cc>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:59:30PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote:
> It's not "bad", other than the fact that it looks hacky, and it
> requires more symbols to be allocated in a C++ compiler, which while
> holding "struct A" in a different namespace than "typedef ... A",
> will search both namespaces when determining which "type" an unknown
> keyword might be referencing. Giving a preference to the
> "typedef". For the situation above, they reference one and the same,
> and the additional logic/memory is wasted.

The "struct A;" not being the the same as "typedef struct A A;" (in C++)
that I state above, seems to be incorrect.

Back to your regularly scheduled gtk-devel... :-)

mark

P.S. Now I have to start whining about why glib doesn't support strings
     that contain arbitrary characters, including '\0'...

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