sumtype 1.0.0

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Wednesday, 25 November 2020 at 00:20:54 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>
> The exact memory layout and ABI of SumType is deliberately left 
> unspecified. It's an implementation detail that client code 
> isn't supposed to rely on. If you want to pass a SumType's 
> value to a C function, you will first have to extract it using 
> pattern matching.

For me personally it would be more helpful if the layout/ABI was 
fully specified. I guess other people may have different 
opinions. In a systems language it is always more useful to have 
an exact specification of what the layout will be.