Re: 122 (v1): types and structures

[David L. Nicol]

Tom Christiansen wrote:

> C type declarations are pretty universally despised.

By whom?

This is news to me.  I have always thought that the C type declaration
is a concise and platform-independent way of declaring a packed
structure, and effectively hiding implementation details (offsets into it)
from the programmer.

What is wrong with them, that makes them despicable?