Register functions ? (strange constructs)

[Dick Dunn]

>As long as we're proposing strange constructs, how about unnamed variables?
>For example, at the top level:
>
>	char[] = "This is a string";

That's hardly strange.  Actually, the form of a type name without any
associated list of variables occurs in other languages (and I believe in
the emerging C standard) in a formal parameter list.  I've also seen it
used for alignment information in a structure--a structure field which is
given a type but no name occupies the amount of storage required for the
type but is otherwise inaccessible--e.g., in C-ish syntax you might have:
	struct {
		short bletch;
		int garg:3;
		int :2;		/* unused and inaccessible space */
		int blip:3;
	}
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