I'm going to make the bold claim that it doesn't take more time to do this, if your language supports algebraic data types. It just sort of naturally happens. O

I'm going to make the bold claim that it doesn't take more time to do this, if your language supports algebraic data types. It just sort of naturally happens. Of course, if your language requires a great deal of ceremony (C++, Java, C#, Python, Golang, Javascript, …) to model data, then it will take more time.