Lightweight Snowflakes

[MrPowerGamerBR]

Changes Snowflakes to be value class to reduce their memory footprint.

I know that this PR probably won't be merged because it is a huge binary change, so it would break everything. Anyhow, this PR is here so other users can implement this change in their own Kord fork, if they need it.

Related to #711

Sadly the constructor can't have value.coerceIn(validValues), and we can't use a interface to "hide" the value class behind a SnowflakeImpl because, if you use interfaces, the class will be boxed. The failing tests are related to the missing coerceIn call.

[lukellmann]

Sadly the constructor can't have value.coerceIn(validValues), and we can't use a interface to "hide" the value class behind a SnowflakeImpl because, if you use interfaces, the class will be boxed. The failing tests are related to the missing coerceIn call.

I thought about using require in init before, this approach would still work for a value class. It would still be a change in behavior though.

[ToxicMushroom]

Can't we use a typealias for snowflake ?
It seems to just store a ULong and not do much else

[lukellmann]

Can't we use a typealias for snowflake ?
It seems to just store a ULong and not do much else

That would mean that all extensions that we then would have to define on snowflakes are usable for all Longs...

[HopeBaron]

This will be closed to be included in a up to date PR
Thanks @MrPowerGamerBR