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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Struct and Union |
| Date | 2015-07-10 23:45 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <877fq7ws1q.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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"Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> writes: <snip example of making a "discriminated union" in C> > That being the case, the OP should use C++ then and make it a class > with encapsulated accessors. The OP should *consider* using C++, but saying that they should use C++ is too strong. This is one of those places where, from the C programmer's point of view, you have to keep reinventing the wheel. This problem was solved decades ago (see, for example, Algol 68) and solved again and again in various ways every few years or so since. But all of these solutions are just a shade above the level that C is pitched at in terms of programming abstractions. -- Ben.
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Struct and Union janus <emekamicro@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 00:49 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-07-10 09:04 +0100
Re: Struct and Union janus <emekamicro@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 01:40 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-07-10 09:50 +0100
Re: Struct and Union Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-07-10 13:44 +0100
Re: Struct and Union "Bill Davy" <Bill@SynectixLtd.com> - 2015-07-10 12:37 +0100
Re: Struct and Union Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-10 08:24 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-12 12:53 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-10 21:32 +1200
Re: Struct and Union "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 05:12 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-10 17:35 +0100
Re: Struct and Union David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 10:18 -0700
Re: Struct and Union "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 10:23 -0700
Re: Struct and Union James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-10 13:47 -0400
Re: Struct and Union Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-10 12:38 -0700
Re: Struct and Union "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 10:27 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-10 13:55 +0100
Re: Struct and Union Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-10 21:48 +0100
Re: Struct and Union "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 13:51 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-10 23:45 +0100
Re: Struct and Union "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 17:43 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-11 13:04 +0100
Re: Struct and Union "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 05:15 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-11 14:01 +0100
Re: Struct and Union "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 06:05 -0700
Re: Struct and Union "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 06:13 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-11 13:51 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Martin Shobe <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-11 16:51 -0500
Re: Struct and Union Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-11 23:13 +0100
Re: Struct and Union Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-11 17:39 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-11 16:56 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-10 18:52 -0700
Re: Struct and Union Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-10 19:12 -0700
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