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Unions are like condoms (lemmus.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Rednax 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is terrible programming advice.

[–] pivot_root 39 points 1 year ago

Blasphemy! Unions are just algebraic data types without any guardrails. If the programmer misuses them, that's their own fault for b$:, 9^\⊂ƒ~>[→ZzF™×#
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[–] WaltJRimmer 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never knew my Set Theory professor was so against workers' rights!

[–] Rednax 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My C++ teacher taught me to be against unions. He made everything class based instead.

[–] pivot_root 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How reckless, encouraging inheritance like that. My ~~personal demon~~ college tutor instructed me on the ways of Malbolge. In the end, life is just a list of self-modifying instructions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I laughed at that, thank you!