> I had already reached the same conclusion after I saw that
> everyone would have to remember to say "my Dog $spot;" every time or the
> whole thing falls apart.
Falls apart? How?
> If you want something reasonably close, you could do what a lot of the
> Template Toolkit code does and use arrays with constants for key
> names. Here's an example:
Yes but then you get neither compile time (my Dog $spot) nor run time
(my $spot) error checking.
How are you going to debug the times you use a constant defined for
one structure to index another?
Have fun.
Oh, do it all through accessor functions. That'll be nice and
fast won't it.
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