Questions tagged [variant]

A specialized form of data type, a tagged union stores various other data types within it. This type is commonly found in [ocaml] and is often utilized for communication between different programming languages like [c++] and [vb6] in traditional Microsoft Windows [com] development. Similar constructs can also be found in other programming languages under different names such as [discriminated-unions] or the broader category of [algebraic-data-types].