Roadmap, design goal and relationship to the prior proposals

[Jack-Works]

Design goal

• Support ADT enum
  • Work with Pattern matching well
• Work with TypeScript well
• (Possible) Prefer static over dynamic
• Cover bit-flag case
• Cover symbol, string, number and bigint

Roadmap

• Decide the design space before designing the syntax
• Specify the plain enum first: Design decision for plain enum #3
• Add ADT support: Design decision for ADT support #19

Prior proposals

• enum proposal by rbuckton
• enum proposal by rwaldron

Those proposals are inactive and do not include ADT support.

Prior Art

• Flow.js Enum
• TypeScript Enum
• Rust enum
• C# enum