std.variant Is Everything Cool About D

Meta jared771 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 00:37:27 UTC 2018


On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 14:10:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Jared Hanson (a.k.a Meta and MetaLang around these parts) was 
> inspired by an article titled "std::visit is everything wrong 
> with modern C++" to contrast it with D's std.variant.visit. The 
> result is this well-written post for the D Blog.
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/29/std-variant-is-everything-cool-about-d/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/881hmi/stdvariant_is_everything_cool_about_d/

Unfortunately, this turned out to be the worst possible day for 
me to try to actively monitor the thread and respond to 
questions. I'm surprised that people latched onto my little quip 
about C++ using the name variant for a tagged union.


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