Travis (Oct 12 2022 at 15:43): Travis (Oct 12 2022 at 15:43):rather than having to do a manual switch over some Tag, and map to strings, it would be nice if there was builtin that did this. this could possibly make printing error messages a lot easier. zig's @tagName has made me want this feature.
Travis (Oct 12 2022 at 15:45):i know it only works for enums and tagged unions (not for extern unions or untagged unions) in zig.
Travis (Oct 12 2022 at 15:46):not sure if roc has any of these considerations and whether the compiler could easily output the tags as strings.
Ayaz Hafiz (Oct 12 2022 at 15:47):We've talked about abilities similar to Display/Debug in Roc that would automatically print a string representation of a type, that would serve this purpose well.
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