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…
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, so it might…
Comments don’t persist in binary. Like white space, they are explicitly not part of the data model.
Genuine question—why would you need a sum type in a self-describing data format?
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…
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, so it might…
Comments don’t persist in binary. Like white space, they are explicitly not part of the data model.
Genuine question—why would you need a sum type in a self-describing data format?