[Nickle] Re: [AI] Nickle Growing Pains

Carl Worth cworth at cworth.org
Thu Jan 6 12:30:38 PST 2005


On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:56:39 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> Because we use 'typedef' to bind the name 'e' to the union type, the value 
> itself has no referent to that name, only the underlying union type.

Hmmm...

> We could easily fix it to pring only 'a' instead of 'a = <>', if that 
> would appeal.

Not much.

Neither one is usable as value to assign back to v. But I think you
were recently planning on reworking the printing to make things like
this more consistent anyway, right?

-Carl



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