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Clarification of types.

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* **union**: union type containing one of the given subtypes
* notation `Union[type_0, type_1, ...]`, e.g. `union[null, uint64]`
*Note*: Both `Vector[boolean, N]` and `Bitvector[N]` are valid, yet distinct due to their different serialization requirements. Similarly, both `List[boolean, N]` and `Bitlist[N]` are valid, yet distinct. Generally `Bitvector[N]`/`Bitlist[N]` are preferred because of their serialization efficiencies.
### Variable-size and fixed-size
We recursively define "variable-size" types to be lists, unions, `Bitlist` and all types that contain a variable-size type. All other types are said to be "fixed-size".
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| `boolean` | `False` |
| `Container` | `[default(type) for type in container]` |
| `Vector[type, N]` | `[default(type)] * N` |
| `Bitvector[boolean, N]` | `[False] * N` |
| `Bitvector[N]` | `[False] * N` |
| `List[type, N]` | `[]` |
| `Bitlist[boolean, N]` | `[]` |
| `Bitlist[N]` | `[]` |
| `Union[type_0, type_1, ...]` | `default(type_0)` |
#### `is_zero`