union initialization, another brick in the wall

[Tim Maroney]

In the interests of pluralism, here is another idea concerning union
initialization.  Allow assignment expressions at the external level.  The
RHS would have to be a compile-time constant, and the LHS an already
declared lvalue.  Thus, you would have:

union {
	float x;
	int y;
} foo;

foo.x = 3;

Just a thought....
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Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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