From: Moo-Juice <Ben AT flag DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: About Allegro's palettes
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 08:13:06 +0000
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In article <+z987EApj96yEwVb AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, Shawn Hargreaves
<Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> writes
>Moo-Juice writes:
>>In allegro, the typedef for a Palette, is PALLETE.  Is this an
>>Anglo/American difference, or simply spelt wrong? <g>
>
>It's a spelling mistake :-) But it's not my fault! I learned C with an
>Atari compiler that spelt it like that in all the headers and libs, and
>I've just got used to the incorrect spelling... I'm gradually trying to
>mend my ways: the documentation for Allegro now uses the correct
>spelling, and there are some #defines so that your program will work the
>same whichever spelling you use...

Well in actual fact. by keeping it as PALLETE means you could define a
palette called PALETTE (I hate trying to think up names for my
palettes.. I've so far come up with PAL or PALETTE)...  :)

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Moo-Juice