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cbVariant class - update: discarded

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rickg22:

--- Quote from: killerbot on December 30, 2005, 09:41:45 am ---Storing a type in the class and using unions.
Last month in Vegas several Gurus were flaming against those kind of things.

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Mind giving us an example? See, the question with the variant type... is that we need it to be:

a) Compact - to use the least possible memory, because we'll be using THOUSANDS of these.
b) Easily serializable. For me, using a char to define the type fits this.

rickg22:
Anyway, after thinking it for a while, maybe the use of variants isn't such a good idea. At least not for the compiler framework (it might prove useful in some config-related business). Thanks all for your feedback! :)

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