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by sekao 309 days ago
The code example will work even if `u` is only known at runtime. That's because the inner switch is not matching on `u`, it's matching on `ab`, which is known at compile time due to the use of `inline`.

That may be confusing, but basically `inline` is generating different code for the branches .a and .b, so in those cases the value of `ab` is known at compile time. So, the inner switch is running at compile time too. In the .a branch it just turns into a call to handle_a(), and in the .b branch it turns into a call to handle_b().