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by dgb23 115 days ago
I think Zig does a very good illustration of this distinction. They separate:

- enum: essentially just a typed uint tag collection

- union: the plain data structure that can contain any of several types

- tagged union: combines enums and unions, so you can dispatch on its tag to get one of the union types

Read from this section and they appear in order:

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#enum