From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:05:58 -0400
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You're right, and the capability to do:

struct type {
	int a;
	int b;
};

struct type2 {
	type;
	int c;
	int d;
};

saves so many more strokes in itself *and must* be more efficient.

Suppose I'm not saying "why," but "why not."  IMO it's cleaner and
quite possibly more efficient (without getting into a usec argument,
please).  Do you disagree?

Sam

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, rob pike, esq. wrote:

> Saves you, what, 5 keystrokes?  Not too convincing.
>
> -rob
>