std.reflect.Type field kind should be enum

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Use Case

To reduce bugs with writing code that is reflection heavy and dispatches based on what types have been reflected, it would be preferable to restrict the "kind" field to a fixed set of choices.

Example, instead of:

let t = @type(Array<str>);
assert(t.kind == "array");

it can be:

assert(t.kind == std.reflect.TypeId.ARRAY);
// or
assert(t.kind == .ARRAY);

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Component

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