Ruben Bartelink

Then other inconsistency to note is that ES lib versions >=4 use a `Long` for the index; perhaps this may offer a way to make any change evident?

TL;DR my problem is that the API is surprising and one can easily make a mistake when porting from ES to SSS. Yes, I know most go the other direction,...

Right - I agree that's a much clearer way to model it; thanks for taking the time to make it concrete for me If SSS v2 was to present `type...

Can borrow [scheme](https://eiriktsarpalis.wordpress.com/2018/10/30/a-contract-pattern-for-schemaless-datastores/) and some impl from https://github.com/eiriktsarpalis/TypeShape/blob/main/src/TypeShape/Applications/UnionContract.fs#L9

While this should not be the primary consideration, private reflection is a lot less efficient. That's one reason why Newtonsoft has the same 'weakness'. (Pretty sure STJ does too). If...

> I think this should not be the default behaviour indeed I get that; I've been bitten by it too, and it is can be very frustrating, but the fact...

@orney21d AFAICT its still on [the roadmap](https://github.com/xunit/xunit/issues/2133), and this continues to be the tracking issue.

Can you imagine any follow-up requests these people might have? Things like these are rarely a technical problem, and the stated reason is rarely the real one. Can you road...

It wouldn't 'confuse' me; my point, which I was making very indirectly, is that every intro blog video and course would then need to mention two aliases etc, and there...

What are you expecting to happen? What happens if you provide an empty array as arguments to the InlineData attribute as one normally would?