the_girabbit

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   by the_girabbit 5y ago

   Yeah, but it’s a schema-less, self-describing data format. It’s not like a specific position in a data stream has a requirement to be a specific type. I can see why sum types would be useful in a schema or for the elements of a collection t
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   by the_girabbit 5y ago

   Ion will be even better for (structured) logging if this proposal for templates ever happens. https://github.com/amzn/ion-docs/pull/104 Looks like no one’s even so much as commented on it in the last year, s
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   by the_girabbit 5y ago

   Comments don’t persist in binary. Like white space, they are explicitly not part of the data model.
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   by the_girabbit 5y ago

   Genuine question—why would you need a sum type in a self-describing data format?