[omniORB] OmniORBpy & TypeDefs

[Simon Wright]

> From: Stefan Seefeld <seefelds@MAGELLAN.UMontreal.CA>

> what is the difference of this declaration compared to one without
> the typedef ?  I'v seen this kind of declaration in C source code
> but always thought it was a C idiosyncrasy, i.e. bound to the
> semantics of the C language.  I never found any use for it in C++
> anyways...

Well, you wouldn't, because in C++ if you say

  struct thing {
    ..
  };

you can declare

  thing t;

whereas in C you have to say

  struct thing t;

but if in C you had said

  typedef struct thing {
    ..
  } THING;

you would have been able (still in C) to say

  THING t;

HTH

-Simon