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Crystal union types are tagged as the actual type a variable contains is tracked. I honestly have no idea how anything could work if they were not tagged. Like
by yxhuvud 3y ago
Crystal union types are tagged as the actual type a variable contains is tracked.
I honestly have no idea how anything could work if they were not tagged. Like how on earth would you know what method to invoke?
- andyferris 3y agoYou should look into the union keyword in C :) (Basically the programmer has to figure out how discrimination works - you’re kinda on your own).
- yxhuvud 3y agoBut eh, that is not the case in crystal. You are not on your own - the language knows what a variable is during runtime and you have plenty of ways to dispatch between the types.