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prevent struct member vars from shuffling around, can take address of struct now

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Irmen de Jong
2019-07-13 00:27:03 +02:00
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@@ -284,9 +284,10 @@ use a scoped name to refer to them: ``structvariable.membername``.
Structs are a bit limited in Prog8: you can only use numerical variables
as member of a struct, so strings and arrays and other structs can not be part of a struct.
Also, it is not possible to use a struct itself inside an array.
Structs are mainly syntactic sugar for repeated groups of vardecls
and assignments that belong together.
and assignments that belong together. However, *they are layed out
in sequence in memory as the members are defined* which may be useful
if you want to pass pointers around
To create a variable of a struct type you need to define the struct itself,
and then create a variable with it::