Re: anonymous aggregates?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote in message 
news:85mx1bwec4.fsf@stephe-leake.org...
...
> If we introduce the notion of "anonymous aggregates" (styled after
> "anonymous arrays"), we could do this:

I'd be more likely to call this idea an "anonymous record" as that is the 
obvious counterpart to "anonymous array".

declare
    function Foo return
       record
          A : Integer;
          B : Float;
        end record
    is begin
        return
            (A => 1,
             B => 2.0);
    end Foo;

(As a side-benefit, there'd be less griping about not repeating the name in 
a record declaration. ;-)

I suspect that this was not done originally in Ada mainly because of 
concerns about arbitrarily introducing additional identifiers in the middle 
of other declarations. Not sure that's a real problem; there might be some 
weird visibility issues that arose.

                                       Randy.