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Yeah, but it’s a schema-less, self-describing data format. It’s not like a specific position in a data stream has a requirement to be a specific type. I can see why sum types would…

Ion will be even better for (structured) logging if this proposal for templates ever happens. https://github.com/amzn/ion-docs/pull/104 Looks like no one’s even so much as commente…

Comments don’t persist in binary. Like white space, they are explicitly not part of the data model.

Genuine question—why would you need a sum type in a self-describing data format?