I'm implementing a linked list in C. Here's a struct that I made, which represents the linked list:

typedef struct llist {
  struct lnode* head; /* Head pointer either points to a node with data or NULL */
  struct lnode* tail; /* Tail pointer either points to a node with data or NULL */
  unsigned int size; /* Size of the linked list */
} list;

Isn't the "llist" basically useless. When a client uses this library and makes a new linked list, he would have the following declaration:

list myList;

So typing llist just before the opening brace is practically useless, right? The following code basically does the same job:

typedef struct {
  struct lnode* head; /* Head pointer either points to a node with data or NULL */
  struct lnode* tail; /* Tail pointer either points to a node with data or NULL */
  unsigned int size; /* Size of the linked list */
} list;