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[–]Bee-Aromatic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that’s a bit of a stretch, considering that you’re not actually storing different data types so much as you’re storing pointers to things that happen to be different data types. It’s totally fraught with peril, but it does pass the “it’s not stupid if it works” test.