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Re:Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things... by acehreli on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:01PM (#28051524)
I don't know what code Walter is referring to but I had similar experiences during a presentation of the Boost Spirit library (at our Silicon Valley C++ Meeting; must be about a decade ago now).

The speaker was proud and beaming for showing how powerful C++ is and the audience was in awe.

I was incredulous! Jaw open! The "solution" was horrible with a bunch of workarounds for a bunch of shortcomings. It was a "the emperor does not have cloths" moment for me.

Boost Spirit may be better today with newer C++ features; I don't know.

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Re:Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things... by shaklee3 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:09PM (#28051628)
That's kind of the key. We require c++17. Without that it gets extremely ugly and more verbose.
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