Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!glad From: Rene Wenzel Schmidt Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: UNION in BETA Date: 22 Mar 1996 10:18:53 GMT Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University Lines: 26 Approved: mailtonews@daimi.aau.dk Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ituqd$qa1@gjallar.daimi.aau.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: daimi.daimi.aau.dk > From news@gjallar.daimi.aau.dk Fri Mar 22 06:48:34 1996 > To: usergroup@mjolner.dk > From: Ola Fosheim Groestad > Subject: Re: UNION in BETA > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 14:21:03 +0100 > Nntp-Posting-Host: birk32.studby.uio.no > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Charset: LATIN1 > X-Char-Esc: 29 > > Rene Wenzel Schmidt wrote: > > > If you want to be able to access an integer as an array of char, or > > do similar type-unsafe things the answer is no (present, and highly > > likely in the future). > > Hmm.. Are you sure about this? You should be able to do this in > the Mjoelner implementation by using the external Library? Or? > It is possible to do type-unsafe things by calling external C code. However, that code is not BETA code, and it is not likely to be portable. /Rene