On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:21:41AM -0600, Jay Moore wrote: > On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:43 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > I'm finally doing something very exciting here at work: porting software to > > Unix! > > > > I need the equivalent of a variant, however. A hold-everything variable > > that can be any type in C/C++. Is there something already out there I can > > use or should I just roll my own? > > I think you should read and understand MS' documentation on the variant data > type before you spend much time trying to code this for *nix. IIRC, the > Variant data type is limited to development environments like "Visual Basic". > > I'm thinking there must be an awful lot of overhead associated with handling > a "Variant" data type, as every use of it must figure out what the "real" > datat type is. I don't know what your objective is, and certainly don't > pretend to tell you this shouldn't be done, but - just because MS has done > it, does not mean it is a good thing to do in general.
Or, just use PERL. :) -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
