Comment by yorwba
8 hours ago
"Tag compatibility" means that the name has to be the same. The issue the proposal is trying to address is that "struct Goose { float weight; }" and "struct Goose { float weight; }" are different types if declared in different locations of the same translation unit, but the same if declared in different translation units. With tag compatibility, they would always be treated as being the same.
"struct Goose { float weight; }" and "struct Beaver { float weight; }" would remain incompatible, as would "struct { float weight; }" and "struct { float weight; }" (since they're declared without tags.)
Ah, thanks, that makes sense.