Statically assert that a given value is a specific variant of an enum

[jkshtj]

I recently ran into a use case where I was passing down an enum type to a function and I needed that value to be a specific variant of the enum type. First, is it an anti-pattern? Second, if not, Is that something that we'd want to add to this crate?

[konsumlamm]

Your proposed implementation doesn't assert anything statically, it all happens at runtime (unless you run it in a const context, but the example doesn't do that). To clarify, statically means at compile time.

If you want a function to only take a specific variant, I'd recommend just passing the field(s) of that variant.

[jkshtj]

@konsumlamm, my bad, I'm not sure what I was thinking while drawing up that implementation. I have updated the question to remove the proposed implementation.