(j3.2006) Constraint C835: SELECT TYPE selector must be anamed variable

[Van Snyder]

On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 09:41 +0900, Malcolm Cohen wrote:
> Damian wonders:
> >It would be great if there were some language to explain what is
> meant by 
> >?named variable?.
> 
> I am puzzled as to what is confusing or ambiguous about "named"... but
> then 
> we've been using the term "named" to mean "has a name" for many
> decades now...

For those who haven't been reading the standard for decades, the
difference between "name" and "identifier" and "designator" might be a
bit too subtle, at least for a while.

It wouldn't hurt, and not take much ink, to define "named variable" to
be a <variable> for which <designator> is <name>.