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Unions are like condoms
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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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This is terrible programming advice.
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)
I never knew my Set Theory professor was so against workers' rights!
My C++ teacher taught me to be against unions. He made everything class based instead.
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.
I laughed at that, thank you!