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0 pointsbradtgmurray10y ago0 comments

That looks a lot like C to me, which I wouldn't call a dynamic language.

  typedef struct Foo {
    int a;
    int b;
  } Foo;

  Foo f = (Foo) { .a = 1 }; // This will initialize b to zero.

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hactually10y ago· 2 in thread

Isn't it funny how C has so many ways to accomplish the same thing. Why did you use a typedef with a tag?

  typedef struct {
    int a;
    int b;
  } Foo;

  Foo f = { .a = 1 };

to3m10y ago

Tagless structs can't be forward-declared.

(Obviously, this looks like a local struct, so there's possibly no need for forward declaration. But you might have a snippet to generate this sort of thing for you. Or maybe it's just force of habit. And so on.)

masklinn10y ago

> Or maybe it's just force of habit.

Or cargo-culting.

edit: wow somebody felt threatened. I have no shame stating that I cargo-culted exactly that for a while before I actually wondered what I was doing.

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