Re: DIP 1008 Preliminary Review Round 1

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 20 May 2017 at 14:59:37 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
On Saturday, 20 May 2017 at 13:36:14 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
unions and other ABI-related things will be tricky.

Isn't the unions issue quite easily solved by tagging behind 
the scenes?

Ah tagging behind the scene is an option, it comes with runtime 
cost though.
And tagging would disallow the tricky and very common usecase of 
overlaying and int and a float.

This I understand, is heavily used.