Unix equivalent of a variant??
John
john at starfire.mn.org
Thu Feb 3 04:54:10 PST 2005
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:21:41AM -0600, Jay Moore wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:43 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I'm finally doing something very exciting here at work: porting software to
> > Unix!
> >
> > I need the equivalent of a variant, however. A hold-everything variable
> > that can be any type in C/C++. Is there something already out there I can
> > use or should I just roll my own?
>
> I think you should read and understand MS' documentation on the variant data
> type before you spend much time trying to code this for *nix. IIRC, the
> Variant data type is limited to development environments like "Visual Basic".
> I'm thinking there must be an awful lot of overhead associated with handling
> a "Variant" data type, as every use of it must figure out what the "real"
> datat type is. I don't know what your objective is, and certainly don't
> pretend to tell you this shouldn't be done, but - just because MS has done
> it, does not mean it is a good thing to do in general.
Or, just use PERL. :)
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John Lind
john at starfire.MN.ORG
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