Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: union or type casting, which to use? Message-ID: <1990Dec4.213422.13754@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <9011271554.AA23331@bisco.kodak.COM> <28080@mimsy.umd.edu> <1990Dec02.231041.8281@dirtydog.ima.isc.com> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 21:34:22 GMT In article <1990Dec02.231041.8281@dirtydog.ima.isc.com> karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: >... I think it's a much better solution than the kludge >X3J11 had to invent. Once again X3J11 gets blamed for "inventing" existing practice. Yes, believe it or not, there was existing practice for the first-member rule, which gave it a big edge over various better-but-untried proposals. -- "The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com