Chapter 26
Discriminated Unions
The tuples developed in the previous chapter aggregate values of some list of types into a single value, giving them roughly the same functionality as a simple struct. Given this analogy, it is natural to wonder what the corresponding type would be for a union: It would contain a single value, but that value would have a type selected from some set of possible types. For example, a database field might contain an integer, floating-point value, string, or binary blob, but it can only contain a value of one of those types at any given time.
In this chapter, we develop a class template Variant that dynamically stores a value of one of a given set of possible value types, similar to the C++17 standard library’s std::variant<> ...
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