WinApi, Alias for HINSTANCE hInstance

[MC]

In a tutorial for WinApi i found equating a LHS to hInstance without previous declaration.

int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nShowCmd) {
	hInst=hInstance;
...

Is this a way to define an alias for a symbol?

[Hi]

No. Must be a mistake then.

[MC]

I found it. The symbol hInst was declared as global variable.
Bad coding style not to use sort of identification in the variable name for a global variable. If you don't know that hInst is global you just get confused.

[Mechanics]

MC schrieb:

If you don't know that hInst is global you just get confused.

Or you just use your IDE and jump to the declaration/definition.

[Belli]

MC schrieb:

If you don't know that hInst is global you just get confused.

Mhm, if it compiles, global declaration is the only way it could be managed.