-=> ``Tical`` wrote to Paul Druggitt <=-
 ``> This is a C++ question
Not really... this works in C, too. :-)
 ``> I was reading in a C++ book that inside of structures, you can
 ``> define data types of that structure... Like so:
 ``> 
 ``> struct list
 ``> { char monkey;
 ``>   list *list;
            ^
            |- notice this!
 ``>   list *invertebrate;
 ``>   int  beligerant;
 ``> }
What you've done is not to declare a structure within itself, but rather a
*pointer* to a structure of that type. Storage must be allocated to those
pointers manually, via "malloc" (for C) or "new" (for C++). That's how
lists are built.
 ``> it seems that some sort of infinite loop would be created because the
 ``> structure would be creating variables of that structure which, in 
 ``> turn, would create more variables of that structure, etc., etc.
Since they're only pointers, not structures, there's no automatic
recursion in their creation.
... Data, data everywhere, and not a byte to eat!
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