Am 05.04.2012 um 08:42 schrieb Brandon Allbery:

> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 01:53, Sutherland, Julian <julian.sutherland10@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> data Tree = Node Left Right | Leaf
>
> Could be converted to a struct in C/C++:
>
> struct Tree {
>     struct Tree* left;
>     struct Tree* right;
> };
>
> Shouldn't this actually be a tagged union?  Not that they exist as such in C/C++, but are easy enough to emulate (minus the extra type checking that real tagged unions such as even Pascal gives you):

Not necessarily. The above type is equivalent to

 type Tree = Maybe (Left, Right)