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In article <4405ig$fmd@caip.rutgers.edu>, halasz@caip.rutgers.edu writes:
>In article <DFBsED.2H1@stdc.demon.co.uk>, clive@stdc.demon.co.uk writes
>: The Standard's authors prefered to have a simple concept of scope rather
>: than one full of special cases. So tags have the same (prototype) scope
>: as anything else within a prototype. This means you need to first declare
>: the tag outside the prototype. This is trivial, and makes it clear that
>: the tag used here is the same as the one used elsewhere in file scope.
>But nou it is quite clear that that experiment has gone awry, and
>the lack of a special case is a headake to the poor programmer.

Not that clear at all. It seems to me that compilers which say, "Warning: The
declaration of struct tag 'S' has prototype scope. This is probably not what
you wanted." handle the situation just fine.
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