[SDL] Event union...oh i get it!

[Christopher Subich]

At 10:59 PM 10/20/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Fellow humans,
>    Ok, I think I understand.  So referencing event.type is, really, just
>    a user-friendly reference to a specific place in memory.  And, because

Everything in C is a user-friendly reference to a specific place in memory.

Except for the things that are unfriendly references to a specific place in 
memory.

>    On a side note, I see why people get so frustrated with C at times...I
>    imagine an innapropriate reference to a union member could be a
>    debugging nightmare.

To put it mildly, yes. :)

Although when done correctly, as in SDL, something like this is an elegant 
solution to the problem.