[M3devel] Resummary of tagged reference proposals

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:20:38AM +0200, Froggy wrote:
> Yes, I understand what you're proposing and agree, but if you call  
> them unions then people think you're talking about C style unions or  
> variant records, etc which are the anathema in question.

Historically, it was the other way around.  C took Algol 68's unions, 
and removed the run-time type discriminator which could make them safe.

-- hendrik