> > typedef struct
> > {
> > int a;
> > } MyStruct, *MyStructPtr;
>
> At the risk of starting a religious war, I have to ask: why do people
> (including the writers of the Palm header files) create typedefs for
> pointers? I find it simpler, cleaner and easier to read if I just say
> MyStruct *p;
> rather than
> MyStructPtr p;
> In the latter case, it's not as clear that the thing you're defining is
> a pointer; the type name is longer and not as transparently related to
> the base type MyStruct; and there are twice as many typedefs floating
> around. I can understand doing something like this if you're defining
> an opaque type that isn't meant to be dereferenced (or, heaven forbid,
> you're working on some horrible segmented architecture where you've got
> to distinguish between near/far pointers), but I've seen people do this
> for ordinary pointers that are meant to be dereferenced. Why?
i agree with you totally.. the reason why i wrote the code like
that is because that is how Palm does it - in order to make most
people "see" what i meant, i stuck to their style.
inside all my code, if i use a pointer.. then i use the traditional
style of "* struct".. that way i know that i am dealing with a pointer
by seeing a "*".. :> i agree with yout point totally.
in addition.. i hate the "->" syntax.
event->eType to me is better written as:
(*event).eType
i teach C at the university.. and you would not believe the
confusion of using ->, they understand (*event), as it works
the same for primitive types and structures..
&var -> the address of
*var -> whats at the address of
simple case.. :> works perfectly.. of course i tell them that
"->" can be used too..
religious war? hehe.. well.. you DONT have to use the typedefs :>
but... you should try and keep your code looking "similar" in
style to the base system - which is 3Com's code.
cheers.
az.
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