Curriculum Data modeling Enums as tagged unions exercise 2 · mcq
Enums as tagged unions
An enum's variants can carry payload — positional, named, or none. Pick the declaration that uses ALL THREE shapes: one tuple-like variant, one struct-like variant, and one unit variant.
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Rust enums are real sum types: each variant can carry different data. This is the closest Rust analogue to TypeScript discriminated unions, but the compiler enforces exhaustiveness. Planned exercises: 1. choose enum syntax. 2. recognise tuple-like and struct-like variants. 3. choose an enum over string tags. 4. fill a variant constructor. 5. fill an enum type annotation. 6. write a small enum. 7. write a value of a data-carrying variant. 8. translate a TS discriminated union. 9. model a small state machine with enum variants.