From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Stephen Horne  wrote:   
   (snip)   
      
   > No problem there. But now, let's assume that we want a variable of   
   > some struct type.   
      
   >  mystruct x;   
      
   > The fact that "mystruct" identifies a type is significant - it is how   
   > this is recognised as a variable declaration. But how does the parser   
   > *know* that "mystruct" is a type at all?   
      
   (snip)   
      
   > C used to require that you write something like...   
      
   >  struct mystruct x;   
      
   I would say that C still does.  It is typedef that causes the problem   
   that you mention, and typedef is commonly used with structure   
   declarations.  You can typedef int just as easily as struct.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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