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Are there other languages that rust where enums can store data? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] acabjones@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think they mean that enum variants can contain fields, i.e. individual variants are themselves structs or tuple structs. AFAIK the closest thing to this in a C-like lang would be a tagged union type.

[โ€“] lemtoman@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

oh yes thats what i mean. Coded in rust, loved this feature, went back to python a bit and became sad that I couldnt do the same. Feels stupid that a variable can be different types depending on the situation, and having a dataclass where just one field is relevant seems too dumb