Re: I'm sorry, but this is unacceptable (union members and ctors)

["michael.a" <wild dot eyed dot boy dot from dot freecloud at gmail dot com>]

Aaron W. LaFramboise-3 wrote:
> 
> michael.a wrote:
> 
>> So in closing, I'm interested in any ideas / advice, but compromising the
>> existing codebase is completely out of the question. You have my
>> appreciation in advance naturally...
> 
> I suspect the proper solution here is something from www.boost.org.  You 
> didn't say exactly what you needed, but if its anything related to a 
> common programming pattern, Boost has probably already implemented it in 
> a portable or standard manner.  See 
> <http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm>.
> 
> In particular, see Boost optional, and aligned_storage in Boost
> typetraits.
> 
> Other people have already pointed it out, but I'll say it again: 
> language extensions are almost always the wrong solution for these sorts 
> of problems.
> 
> 

I appreciate the thought, but there is sort of an imperitive with this
effort to shy away from Boost/STL/virtual inheritance completely.
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