[YLUG] Pointer help correction

[Pete Fenelon]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:30:28AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 
> Why not use an enum?  You gain type-safety and the intent is clearer.
> 

Most of the 'solutions' to the original problem seem to be crudely
transliterating the assembly-language data structures to old-skool C.  

I think the wrong questions are being asked - and the key issue is 
"what is the original poster trying to *achieve*?"

There is a disturbing emphasis on (usually incorrect) language details
rather than trying to recapture design rationale.

> If your goal (again, we have no clue what this is) is to have a
> general list of variables of different types, there are cleaner ways
> to do this.  

Agreed. Don't blindly reimplment in pidgin C++; go back to the original
design (or better - *specification*) and write it using a modern idiom.

pete
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