On Tue, 19 Dec 2023, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 10:21:25PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > As I noted, I think this is a generically neat endeavor and so I think > > > it would be nice to shorthand *any* member of the struct. ctl->any. > > > Julia, is that possible? > > > > What do you mean by *any* member? > > I meant when any code tries to assign a new variable to any of the > members of the struct ctl_table *foo, so any foo->*any* Declaring any to be an identifier metavariable would be sufficient. > > > If any is an identifier typed > > metavariable then that would get any immediate member. But maybe you want > > something like > > > > <+...ctl->any...+> > > > > that will match anything that has ctl->any as a subexpression? > > If as just an expression, then no, we really want this to be tied to > the data struture in question we want to modify. What about foo->a.b? Or maybe that doesn't occur in your structure? julia
