Draft: Xavierm02/discriminating unions

Motivation and Context

WIP

const f = (_x: int) => {
  switch ("int") {
    case "int": return 1;
  }
  return 0;
}

@entry
const entry = (p: nat, s: int): [list<operation>, int] => {
  let result = f(p + s);
  return [list([]), result];
}

yields a Michelson program containing PUSH string "int" ; PUSH string "int" ; COMPARE ; while one might expect the backend to precompute that.

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