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Re:Rust 1.24 by lmm on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:37AM (#16391090)
> I was delighted to see Sum-Product types in Rust when I played with it. They go a long way to cleanly model the problem domain.

Umm yeah, they've been a part of every ML-family language since the '70s, OCaml, Haskell and Rust included.

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Re:Rust 1.24 by tome on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:05AM (#16391512)
(FullyFunctional seems to understand this, as far as I can tell)
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Re:Rust 1.24 by FullyFunctional on Sunday February 25, 2018 @08:23PM (#16462335)
I do, but I wasn't aware that Rust was considered in the ML family (ML as Meta Language, like SML/NJ). I'm somewhat skeptical of that.

What I see from Rust is a lot of the really great things from functional languages (esp. strong typing) and beyond, but applying them to a language aiming as low as C. That's certainly interesting.

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