In what scope is a struct member identifier put?

Question

The C spec says

There are four kinds of scopes: function, file, block, and function prototype.

Now if I do the following outside any

Answer 1

As the standard says, it's in a separate name space created for the struct type. This rule was added in C89, I think. Once upon a time, all member names shared a single name space.

Maybe the compiler writer was being pedantic; a name space is not the same as a scope. A struct definition does not introduce a scope as it doesn't hold variables; it holds members.