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

[mark at mark dot mielke dot cc]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:14:18PM -0700, michael.a wrote:
> >> For instance, say you need to impliment a GUI, so you have yourself a
> >> rectangle struct which consists of four floating point values (the origin
> >> and difference between the opposite corner) ...Now you want those four
> >> values, but you also have a 2D vector struct.
> ...
> I pointed this out as the obvious portable solution somewhere in the thread.
> I just firmly believe this is an unnecessarily back breaking way of going
> about it (and physically backbreaking for whoever would have to change all
> of the code) 
> It would be a blessing were intelligible code somewhat higher up on the
> rungs of c++ priorities (being the ever ubiquitous mainstay systems
> programming language it has become and will likely remain)

Minding reading has always been considered a blessing when it comes
to programming languages. Also, an impossibility.

I don't understand what is being requested. Have one structure with
four fields, and another with two, and allow them to be used
automatically interchangeably? How is this a good thing? How will
this prevent the implementor from making a stupid mistake?

Cheers,
mark

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