reinco

I see the problem, but it makes me think that there are 2 usages of constants: 1. constants that are only used in a certain context. For these maybe option...

The union looks similar to the smarter choice I was looking for. The sharing of the same enum in multiple choices I do not consider a very strong use case....

Initialy, I had problems with using hashcode() because initialize() was not called and made some workarounds to get it working (like copying the input object, and initalizing it with default...

Looking at the zserio documentation, there is a way to specify a default value to use. It does not say anything about what value to use if there is no...