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Subject: Re: anonymous aggregates?
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On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:02:03 AM UTC-7, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>=20
> There are two separate issues here:
>=20
> 1. anonymous record types, one of the things I liked to have very much as
> well as an ability to use anonymous arrays and aggregates as components.
>=20
> The syntax is obvious:
>=20
> function Foo return
>    record
>       A : Integer;
>       B : Float;
>    end record;

I seem to recall someone saying, probably on this newsgroup, that the early=
 designers of Ada were keeping open the possibility of anonymous record typ=
es.  That's one reason why the syntax ends with "end record" instead of "en=
d <typename>" (just to tie this to a different thread!).  It could be that =
the original version of the language had anonymous record types somewhere i=
n the syntax, and it got eliminated before Ada 83 was standardized.  But I =
don't really know.

                               -- Adam