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I think it might be due to the O'Caml influence on early Rust. They call them enums there[0]. [0] https://www.ocamlwiki.com/index.php?title=Enums_in_OCaml http

• ReleaseCandidat 3y ago
  They are called variants in OCaml (and inductive data types in Roqc). But way more important: this OCaml wiki is an AI generated mess full of, well, bullshit. https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/whats-up-with-ocamlwiki/13605 https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/whats-up-with-ocamlwiki/13605
  • Quekid5 3y ago
    Ah, I see. That's sad :( ... and now that you mention it, I do remember the variants terminology, esp. around the polymorphic variants feature. It's been 20+ years since I used OCaml, I'm afraid...