it's actually not anonymous structs but unnamed structs, which are a different thing in the standard (and present in both C and C++).

Anonymous:

    struct Foo {
      struct { int x, y; };
    };

    Foo foo; do_stuff_with(foo.x);

Unnamed:

    struct Foo {
      struct { int x, y; } child;
    };

    Foo foo; do_stuff_with(foo.child.x);

Those two words mean the same yet are different terms. Thanks for a correction.

my approach to technical terms is that life is much simpler if you entirely forget their real-world usage and just map them strictly to how they are defined in the technical context... they could be called zroglub and blox that I couldn't care less, and honestly sometimes I feel that it would be much less confusing to do things that way rather than trying to tie things to some common dictionary word

careful—that's how you get hoon/nock

What about it ? I'm certainly missing a reference because this evokes nothing to me