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Re: [PATCH] Fix PR c/6660

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:34:14PM -0400, Jim Wilson wrote:
> A normal struct/union member is "<type> <name>;".  An anonymous struct/union
> member is "<type>;", where <type> is required to be a struct or union type.

That's not how the feature is described in the C++ standard.
In paragraph 9.5/2 it is described as

	union { member-specification } ;

It is an obvious extension to allow struct instead of union.

I think _that_ is much clearer than "type;" where type has
a set of constraints.


r~
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