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Re:Using enums to represent state in Rust by LoganDark on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:49AM (#37613570)
They do point them out as tagged unions many times in the documentation. But the syntax `tagged_union Whatever {}` doesn't exactly have me jumping out of my seat.
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Re:Using enums to represent state in Rust by pavlov on Friday September 22, 2023 @02:33PM (#37615847)
It’s not like “enum” and “mut” are complete English words either, so maybe an abbreviation like “tun” could have worked.

But honestly I think enum was a better choice.

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Re:Using enums to represent state in Rust by LoganDark on Friday September 22, 2023 @04:25PM (#37617308)
I personally think enum was basically the only reasonable choice, as normal enums really are just a subset of tagged unions. They just happen to support tagged unions on top of them.
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