Re: Renaming vs assignment to constant

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Friday, December 6, 2013 5:47:37 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> <adambeneschan> wrote in message 
> 
> >(Technically, I think Time renames an anonymous object 
> >created by the compiler
> >to hold the function result, although it seems like incorrect English to 
> >talk about "renaming"
> >something that didn't have a name in the first place.)
> 
> Be glad that we didn't introduce named anonymous access types. :-) [We 
> seriously considered that, to allow named types with dynamic accessibility 
> and the special anonymous access-to-subprogram rules, but decided it was 
> just too weird.]

That could actually be quite useful in very specific cases; especially since only anonymous access types can be used in discriminants to parametrize [types] on non-scalar values.

But it would likely make accessibility checks worse for that little increase in functionality.