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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> <PDS.90Nov27180241@lemming.webo.dg.com> <28080@mimsy.umd.edu> <PDS.90Nov30094546@lemming.webo.dg.com> <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
