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>In article <870053@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
>>Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?  Using Lightspeed C v.2.11,
>>I tried to do the following:
>>
>>		tempPoint = aRect.topLeft;
>>
>>When I tried to compile this, I got the error message: 
>>	"Wrong number of arguments to macro topLeft"

In article <3424@husc6.harvard.edu> singer@endor.UUCP (THINK Technologies) writes:
>	You're getting confused between C and Pascal. In C there's no easy
>way to get at the variants of a record.

Assuming something like:

	typedef struct {int x, y;} point;

one way of describing a rectangle which would allow easy access is:

	typedef union
	{
		struct {int top, left, bottom, right;}	ints;
		struct {point topLeft, bottomRight;}	points;
	} rectangle;

which would allow references of the form:

	tempPoint = aRect.points.topLeft;
	tempInt = aRect.ints.top;

Note that this doesn't require the overhead of an extra variable to
keep track of variants.  Admittedly, Ted got confused, but that's no
reason to make incorrect accusations about C.

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