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Unions are useful for minimizing memory usage for exclusive data, such as when implementing mixed data types.

struct AnyType {
    enum {
        IS_INT,
        IS_FLOAT
    } type;
    
    union Data {
        int as_int;
        float as_float;
    } value;

    AnyType(int i) : type(IS_INT) { value.as_int = i; }
    AnyType(float f) : type(IS_FLOAT) { value.as_float = f; }

    int get_int() const {
        if(type == IS_INT)
            return value.as_int;
        else
            return (int)value.as_float;
    }
    
    float get_float() const {
        if(type == IS_FLOAT)
            return value.as_float;
        else
            return (float)value.as_int;
    }
};

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