Subj : Re: Why not unions
To   : comp.programming
From : Vesa Karvonen
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 01:51 am

Scott Moore <samiamsansspam@sun.com> wrote:
> Jon Harrop wrote:

> > Many more modern languages (like OCaml and SML) provide safe alternatives to
> > union called variant types.

> As do older languages, such as Pascal.

According to

  http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html

ML is actually only ~3 years younger than Pascal. Of course, ML didn't
originally have variant types nor pattern matching.

-Vesa Karvonen

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