You can roll your own tagged union instead. The S struct can store long and byte[], S.ptr is a pointer to the data.<div><br></div><div><div>    enum Type { Long, Bytes }</div><div>    struct S {</div><div>        Type type;</div>

<div>        void* ptr;</div><div>        union {</div><div>            long _long;</div><div>            byte[] _bytes;</div><div>        }</div><div>        this(long l) {</div><div>            _long = l;</div><div>            type = Type.Long;</div>

<div>            ptr = &amp;_long;</div><div>        }</div><div>        this(byte[] bytes) {</div><div>            _bytes = bytes;</div><div>            type = Type.Bytes;</div><div>            ptr = &amp;_long;</div><div>

        }</div><div>    }</div><div>    </div><div>    auto s = S(99);</div><div>    assert(s.ptr == &amp;(s._long));</div><div>    assert(s.ptr == &amp;(s._bytes));</div><div><br></div>Pedro Lacerda<br><br>
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<div class="im">On Tuesday, 7 February 2012 at 00:39:00 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:<br>
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Unfortunately I&#39;d need to reference a buffer for the known structured types. Variant seems far more useful for making an interpreted language, than for my purposes.<br>
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I&#39;ve been using Variant with LuaD for some time. Sorry it isn&#39;t what you need but hopefully you&#39;ll know when it will be useful.<br>
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