This probably is one of the easiest question ever in C programming language...

I have the following code:

typedef struct node
{
  int data;
  struct node * after;
  struct node * before;
}node;

struct node head = {10,&head,&head};

Is there a way I can make head to be *head [make it a pointer] and still have the availability to use '{ }' [{10,&head,&head}] to declare an instance of head and still leave it out in the global scope?

For example:

 //not legal!!!
 struct node *head = {10,&head,&head};