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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: interfaces.C - Import struct
Date: 13 Mar 2005 12:31:56 +0000
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Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com> writes:

> BTW: do you know about:
> 
> typedef void driver_setpixel_type (int, int, int);
> 
> Looks much nicer then the (*xxxx) stuff - It is also easer to type:
> just copy the original prototype and replace extern/static with
> typedef - done.  And the code would become symetic to the Ada code
> making maintance easier.

Thanks a lot for that!

Personally I would go for

  typedef void driver_setpixel_type (int a, int b, int c);

being a believer in descriptive names for parameters ... of course I
would never actually use a, b, c, that's obviously silly.

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.