ANSI C idea: structure literals

[Henry Spencer]

The only specific problem I see with this scheme is that there is no
specific indication of the type of the structure literals.  This is unwise;
there are situations where it's not trivial to guess from context.

There is also a more general problem.  To approximate the probable response
of X3J11:  "Need not convincingly shown; existing constructs can be used to
same effect; lack of implementation experience in C."
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