Re: Dynamic Variant Record Creation

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>]

Warren wrote:
> 
> The other way for me to solve this is simply provide
> a discrimanant that only identifies the few variants. But 
> to keep to 32-bits, I'd have to find a way to specify the
> discriminant as 3-bits, which I don't think is possible.

Looking at what you have, it looks like a design problem to me. You have a whole 
bunch of enumeration values, but you don't have a bunch of variants. I'd 
probably have an enumeration type with 3 values that serves as the discriminant. 
Then have 3 enumeration types, one for each variant, that gives the specific 
information that you're now trying to use for the discriminant as well.

Whether you can encode that in a certain number of bits as you seem to be trying 
to do is another question.

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