moore@cad.UUCP (Peter Moore) (12/24/85)
Since this technique is quite useful for implementing, albeit crudely, generic operators as well as Smalltalk-style inheritance, it would be nice if this could be explicitely guarenteed in the standard. If in addition the offset of all members of a union are guarenteed to be the same (and why not zero?), then the requirement of C.3.1.3 for shared initial sequences inside unions would automatically be met. Peter Moore moore@Berkeley or ..!ucbvax!moore