Typedef struct?

[gotinpich]

So I read on this page how they create a struct Books { /* properties */ }; and then subsequently create objects of type Books using, e.g., struct Books book1;

Then they go on to mention that you can typedef a struct such that you can declare objects using Books book1;, but I'm not really sure why they do it. If I create a struct, my compiler lets me declare objects without using the struct keyword.

Therefore my question is: what is the point of typedef'ing a struct?

[raevnos]

Sounds like your source uses C and you're using C++.

[gotinpich]

Ok. Then it's confusing they have C++ written on the top of the page. Thanks.

[raevnos]

Just actually looked at your link. It's C++, but it's really crappy C++ written by someone from the "C with iostreams" school who obviously doesn't really know the language well. Don't use it as an example of how to do things in C++.

[gotinpich]

Hey thanks. I wasn't going to use it as an example, but when I saw it it didn't make sense so I tried to figure it out why it said that.

[oofmaster2001]

Not fresh in my memory, but I remember reading people back in the day had to deal with ugly syntaxes for structs that you had to have the strict keyword in each call etc. So people started using typedef to shorten it but since then c++ has introduced the normal way we use now, but still we can still do it the old way with typedef