🚀 go-pugleaf

class ID {
  long     type;          // Type of identifier.
  union Id {
    thread_t thread_id;
    int      int_id;
    String * string_id;
  } id;
 public:
  ID( thread_t );
  ID( int );
  ID( String );
  ID( ID * );
  ~ID();
  int operator ==( ID );
  int operator !=( ID );
  ID  operator =( ID );
  friend sh_int DefaultHashFun( const ID * );
};

If i wrote

    case STRING: return ( id->string_id != ident.id->string_id );

then compiler cried:

id.cc:54: base operand of `->' is not a pointer
id.cc:54: base operand of `->' is not a pointer

ident is ID type.
If i wrote

    case STRING: return ( *( id.string_id ) != *( ident.id.string_id ) );

then compiler ate it :). To this point i thought that it is the same... but
now i start to think something else... but what? dunno... Can anyone explain
it?


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Asko Seeba.