[nitrogen]

(the uncreatively-named "r8" through "r15".)

I'd much rather have numbered registers that can be used for anything than named registers that have usage limitations.

[colanderman]

I suspect that aside was written tongue-in-cheek.

[nitrogen]

I'm sure, but in case anyone at a CPU design company gets any bright ideas and decides to start naming everything... ;-)

[poizan42]

cough MIPS cough

[mikeash]

Sometimes "uncreative" is praise.