Hi,

Any particular reason this was removed in favor of std.variant?

No matter how I look at it, they serve very different purposes: std.boxer was simply used to wrap an arbitrary value in a (class) heap box; it had nothing to do with discriminated unions as std.variant does.

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Alex Rønne Petersen
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On 9/2/12 8:16 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any particular reason this was removed in favor of std.variant?
>
> No matter how I look at it, they serve very different purposes:
> std.boxer was simply used to wrap an arbitrary value in a (class) heap
> box; it had nothing to do with discriminated unions as std.variant does.

There was a lot of functionality overlap and std.boxer had bitrotten quite a bit. I agree that a way to easily place objects in classes would be useful. What would a modern design look like?

Andrei