alt Hacker NewsErrors that you can recover from. I simply appreciate the added flexibility. Have you ever tried making a container of arbitrary types in C++?
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lmm • today at 7:24 AM
If C++ was the only static type system I'd experienced, I would also think it was a bad idea. Have you ever used an ML-family language?
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You cannot do anything meaningful with a container of arbitrary types, it's just bad design.
If you want to apply the same operation on all of them, then they share some API commonality -- therefore you can use polymorphism or type erasure.
If they don't, you still need to know what types they are -- therefore you can use `std::variant`.
If they really are unrelated, why are you storing them together in the same container? Even then, it's trivial in C++: `std::vector<std::any>`.