diff --git a/private/serialization.nim b/private/serialization.nim
index a73174e..2382096 100644
--- a/private/serialization.nim
+++ b/private/serialization.nim
@@ -387,16 +387,22 @@ proc representObject*[K, V](value: OrderedTable[K, V], ts: TagStyle,
       yield endMapEvent()
     yield endSeqEvent()
 
+proc isVariant(t: typedesc): bool {.compileTime.} =
+  let typeDesc = getType(t)
+  if typeDesc.len > 1:
+    for child in typeDesc[1].children:
+      if child.kind == nnkRecCase:
+        return true
+  return false
+
 proc yamlTag*(T: typedesc[object|enum]):
-    TagId {.inline, noSideEffect, raises: [].} =
-  when compiles(yamlTag(T)): result = yamlTag(T)
-  else:
-    var uri = "!nim:custom:" & (typetraits.name(type(T)))
-    try: serializationTagLibrary.tags[uri]
-    except KeyError: serializationTagLibrary.registerUri(uri)
+    TagId {.inline, raises: [].} =
+  var uri = "!nim:custom:" & (typetraits.name(type(T)))
+  try: serializationTagLibrary.tags[uri]
+  except KeyError: serializationTagLibrary.registerUri(uri)
 
 proc yamlTag*(T: typedesc[tuple]):
-    TagId {.inline, noSideEffect, raises: [].} =
+    TagId {.inline, raises: [].} =
   var
     i: T
     uri = "!nim:tuple("
@@ -423,10 +429,13 @@ proc constructObject*[O: object|tuple](
       raise newException(YamlConstructionError,
           "Expected field name, got " & $e.kind)
     let name = e.scalarContent
-    for fname, value in fieldPairs(result):
-      if fname == name:
-        constructChild(s, c, value)
-        break
+    when compiles(implicitVariantObject(O)):
+      discard
+    else:
+      for fname, value in fieldPairs(result):
+        if fname == name:
+          constructChild(s, c, value)
+          break
   discard s.next()
 
 proc representObject*[O: object|tuple](value: O, ts: TagStyle,
@@ -625,6 +634,11 @@ proc representChild*[O](value: ref O, ts: TagStyle, c: SerializationContext):
           yield event
     except KeyError: assert false, "Can never happen"
 
+proc representChild*[O](value: O, ts: TagStyle,
+                        c: SerializationContext): RawYamlStream =
+  result = representObject(value, ts, c, if ts == tsNone:
+      yTagQuestionMark else: yamlTag(O))
+
 proc construct*[T](s: var YamlStream, target: var T) =
   var context = newConstructionContext()
   try:
diff --git a/test1.nim b/test1.nim
deleted file mode 100644
index cb7e656..0000000
--- a/test1.nim
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-import yaml, macros
-
-type
-  FooKind = enum
-    fooInt, fooBool, fooNone
-  FooKind2 = enum
-    fooAddString, fooAddNone
-  
-  Foo = object
-    a: string
-    case b: FooKind
-    of fooInt:
-      c: int32
-    of fooBool:
-      d: bool
-    of fooNone:
-      discard
-    case c2: FooKind2
-    of fooAddString:
-      e: string
-    of fooAddNone:
-      discard
-
-var o = newFileStream(stdout)
-var f = Foo(a: "a", b: fooBool, d: true)
-
-dump(f, o)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/yaml.nim b/yaml.nim
index 89280fc..1830997 100644
--- a/yaml.nim
+++ b/yaml.nim
@@ -624,57 +624,10 @@ proc representChild*(value: string, ts: TagStyle, c: SerializationContext):
     RawYamlStream {.inline.}
   ## Represents a Nim string. Supports nil strings.
 
-proc isVariant(t: typedesc): bool {.compileTime.} =
-  let typeDesc = getType(t)
-  if typeDesc.len > 1:
-    for child in typeDesc[1].children:
-      if child.kind == nnkRecCase:
-        return true
-  return false
-
-macro presentTagDiscriminators(target: string, t: typedesc, val: expr): stmt =
-  var first = true
-  let typeDesc = getType(getType(t)[1])
-  for child in typeDesc[1].children:
-    if child.kind != nnkRecCase: continue
-    
-    template discriminantToString(): NimNode =
-      newNimNode(nnkInfix).add(
-        newIdentNode("$"), newDotExpr(val, child[0])
-      )
-        
-    if first:
-      first = false
-      result = newNimNode(nnkInfix).add(
-          newIdentNode("&"), newStrLitNode("("), discriminantToString()
-      )
-    else:
-      result = newNimNode(nnkInfix).add(
-        newIdentNode("&"), result, newNimNode(nnkInfix).add(
-        newIdentNode("&"), newStrLitNode(","), discriminantToString())
-      )
-  if first: # no discriminators
-    result = newNimNode(nnkDiscardStmt).add(newNimNode(nnkEmpty))
-  else:
-    result = newNimNode(nnkInfix).add(newIdentNode("&="), target,
-        newNimNode(nnkInfix).add(newIdentNode("&"), result, newStrLitNode(")")))
-
-template presentVariantObjectTag[O](t: typedesc[object], val: O): TagId =
-  var oTag = name(t)
-  presentTagDiscriminators(oTag, t, val)
-  try: serializationTagLibrary.tags[oTag]
-  except KeyError: serializationTagLibrary.registerUri(oTag)
-
 proc representChild*[O](value: O, ts: TagStyle,
                         c: SerializationContext):
-    RawYamlStream {.raises: [].} =
+    RawYamlStream {.raises: [].}
   ## Represents an arbitrary Nim object as YAML object.
-  const isVar = isVariant(O)
-  when isVar:
-    result = representObject(value, ts, c, presentVariantObjectTag(O, value))
-  else:
-    result = representObject(value, ts, c, if ts == tsNone:
-        yTagQuestionMark else: yamlTag(O))
 
 proc construct*[T](s: var YamlStream, target: var T)
     {.raises: [YamlConstructionError, YamlStreamError].}