Eric Blake <[email protected]> writes:

> The next patch will quit special-casing "'union':'Foo',
> 'discriminator':{}" and instead use "'alternate':'Foo'".
>
> Separating docs from implementation makes it easier to focus
> on wording without holding up code.  In particular, making
> alternate a separate type makes for a nice type hierarchy:
>
>           /-------- meta-type ------\
>          /              |            \
>     simple types    alternate     complex types
>     |         |                   |           |
>  built-in   enum             type(struct)   union
>  |       \    /                            /    \
> numeric  string                         simple  flat
>
> A later patch will then clean up 'type' vs. 'struct'
> confusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <[email protected]>

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