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From: Jason Stewart <jstewart@rtl.org>
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Subject: Re: Unix equivalent of a variant??
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> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'm finally doing something very exciting here at work: porting software to
> Unix!
> 
> I need the equivalent of a variant, however.  A hold-everything variable
> that can be any type in C/C++.  Is there something already out there I can
> use or should I just roll my own?
>

Are you porting VB code over to *nix? If that's the case then a better
fit might be Python or Ruby with or without one of the various
bindings for windowing toolkits.

Jason