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The Idea is that the enum acts as a union, capable of holding any of the member types, It's not that different from using identifiers and when transpiling to rust I will probably only support variants beginning with string literals (or maybe generate them).
The main reason is that I could use type inference to define the variants in a returned anonymous enum.
I like the pipe symbol because it is useful for distinguishing between enums and structs without keywords. And I just personally think it looks better. And allow for pretty anonymous enums like
(|String |Int)
for something that can accept both a string and an integer.