← Back to context Comment by jlouis 2 months ago Not a niche feature. Fundamental for any decent language with a type system. 2 comments jlouis Reply mistrial9 2 months ago ok, but C99 and C++11 and others, all have ways to implement types. "Fundemental" as you say.. using UNION in C++ is not a good choice to implement types.. in old C99, you can use UNION that way but why? footguns all around. saagarjha 2 months ago std::variant does not exist in C99.
mistrial9 2 months ago ok, but C99 and C++11 and others, all have ways to implement types. "Fundemental" as you say.. using UNION in C++ is not a good choice to implement types.. in old C99, you can use UNION that way but why? footguns all around. saagarjha 2 months ago std::variant does not exist in C99.
ok, but C99 and C++11 and others, all have ways to implement types. "Fundemental" as you say.. using UNION in C++ is not a good choice to implement types.. in old C99, you can use UNION that way but why? footguns all around.
std::variant does not exist in C99.