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[skyy]

Out of sheer curiosity, why do you use typedef in this situation (HDLIGHT -> HDLIGHT)?

That's my typedef, that's my style

Cool, this explanation works for me just wondered was there a special reason behind it.

Out of sheer curiosity, why do you use typedef in this situation (HDLIGHT -> HDLIGHT)?

It's not HDLIGHT->HDLIGHT, it's struct HDLIGHT->HDLIGHT

What I meant with the (HDLIGHT -> HDLIGHT) was just there to show that why "typedef" from HDLIGHT to HDLIGHT. I'd understand if it was a completely different like typedef HDLIGHT to AwesomeVariable so I thought I'd ask was there some sort of magical thing going on and it was pretty much as I thought it was. A personal preference.

[Glaiel-Gamer]

Out of sheer curiosity, why do you use typedef in this situation (HDLIGHT -> HDLIGHT)?

It's not HDLIGHT->HDLIGHT, it's struct HDLIGHT->HDLIGHT

What I meant with the (HDLIGHT -> HDLIGHT) was just there to show that why "typedef" from HDLIGHT to HDLIGHT. I'd understand if it was a completely different like typedef HDLIGHT to AwesomeVariable so I thought I'd ask was there some sort of magical thing going on and it was pretty much as I thought it was. A personal preference.

in C, you structs are declared like

struct Point {
float x, y;
};


and you can't create one like

Point p1 = {1, 2};

in C, it has to be declared like

struct Point p1 = {1, 2};

i.e., the NAME of the type is "struct Point", so it was standard practice in C to stick typedef in front so you dont need to type "struct" every time.

(this is unnecessary in c++, but habits dont break easily if you learned on C)

[skyy]

loads of stuff I deleted by mistake 

Now that I look back, the habbit was hammered into me too when I was doing C at my old polytechnic. Though haven't done C in ages. Been with higher level languages for too long.

[Sos]

a += b;
a *= c;
a %= n;

rather than a = (a+b)*c%n

[...]the second is "faster"[...]

no, it's the same

[Kekskiller]

a += b;
a *= c;
a %= n;

rather than a = (a+b)*c%n

[...]the second is "faster"[...]

no, it's the same

Stop declaring things without definition.

[Average Software]

I always capitalise structs. I don't know if it's a good habit, but i can tell what's struct, and should have a pointer,and what's not and should be plain ol var.

Code:

typedef struct HDLIGHT
{
  int x,y,lit;
  float sine,phase,wave,light,range,theta,d,dx,dy;
} HDLIGHT;

Did you know that you don't need the tag name when you do this?  You can save yourself some typing by reducing it to this:

Code:

typedef struct
{
  int x,y,lit;
  float sine,phase,wave,light,range,theta,d,dx,dy;
} HDLIGHT;

[Core Xii]

My biggest beef with C++ is actually not its high level constructs and how they fit together, but rather its low level ones.

Man, I so agree with all that, annoying to no end.