[Haskell-beginners] Haskell-style types in C or C++

[Michael Xavier]

You should look into the Union datatype. It has been a long while since I
coded in C but I believe it allowed you to define a struct-like datatype
which could contain exactly 1 value from a list of datatypes. I found a
forum post about it:

http://www.go4expert.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15

Hope that helps.

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Christopher Howard <
christopher.howard at frigidcode.com> wrote:

> One of the things that I love about Haskell is the syntax for creating user
> defined types. E.g.:
>
> Data QueryResult = NoResult | DatabaseError String | Results [String]
>
> I can prototype an entire program around these self-made types and it is a
> lot of fun. Out of intellect curiosity, though: what would be the equivalent
> construction in C or C++? (Say, for the type defined above).
>
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