Translating Modula2 into D: variant records, pointer

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"BLS" <Killing_Zoe at web.de> wrote in message 
news:eo0ih9$2odp$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> Many thanks, this info will give me a Go!
>
>  I guess in Modula2, if 'terminal' is true, you
>> can only access tsym, and otherwise you can only access nSym?
>
> No. Nothing prevents you from making mistake.(In fact variant records are 
> a pretty nice source for bugs)  Would be nice if D can do this better!
> Bjoern

Hmm.. what's that 'terminal' member for then, anyway?