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Steve Johnson wrote:
> The closest I came was when we went from a single namespace for all
> structure names to a namespace for each structure, and references that
> were checked using the pointer type of the structure pointer.  My code
> was a nightmare, and some of the old Unix code was at least a bad
> dream.

How about this, pointer to int used as pointer to struct.

prlook( pp ) int *pp;{
        int j;
        pp = pp->lset;
....