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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:17:15 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Dean Gaudet wrote:
> 
> It's actually:
> 
> typedef struct table table;
> 
> I don't really care if that works in C++.  That is the traditional way of
> declaring an opaque type or forward type reference in C.  Apache is
> written in C, not in C++.  I don't buy the benefit of "improved type
> checking".

There are others. But anyway, it works, or if it doesn't, it can be left
out and the nett effect is the same (that's one of the other benefits -
less lines of code :-)

Cheers,

Ben.

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