>It's a real shame that the internet has driven us to assume everybody is a novice.

Sorry, English is not my native language. I didn't mean to say you're a novice.

>Usually, you take in that struct, and then immediatly have some code to poke it into the appropriate places in your actual data structures

>It's that the specification of your input structure shouldn't exist as a struct, it should exist as the consequence of your parsing code.

>It is not that you should define your inputs separately from your internal data storage. It's that the specification of your input structure shouldn't exist as a struct, it should exist as the consequence of your parsing code.

Can you give an example?