union or type casting, which to use?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Dec02.231041.8281 at dirtydog.ima.isc.com> karl at ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>... I think it's a much better solution than the kludge
>X3J11 had to invent.

Once again X3J11 gets blamed for "inventing" existing practice.  Yes,
believe it or not, there was existing practice for the first-member rule,
which gave it a big edge over various better-but-untried proposals.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry at zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry