[BRLTTY] readable struct initialisation

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2006/03/03 at 16:34 -0500]

>What you probably want is the C99 standard equivalent:
>
>    .name = "Modular 20+4",
>    .identifier = 0X80,
>    .columns = 20,

Yes, on both counts. I like the naming of the fields, and I also like the C99
syntax much better. We already have code which initializes arrays with the
syntax:

   [index] = value

We used to have some code which initialized an array element rnage with the
syntax:

   [from ... to] = value

This, however, was rejected by one of the compilers which we must please. Can
anyone tell me if C99 is supposed to support it or not?

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