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Re:Ruby 2.6 by Redoubts on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:34PM (#18753504)
Languages without ADTs and Optionals just feel impoverished.
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Re:Ruby 2.6 by yxhuvud on Monday December 24, 2018 @04:00PM (#18754242)
Languages without full blown union types feel so impoverished. With good language typing support (including flow typing), optionals feel quite redundant.
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Re:Ruby 2.6 by int_19h on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @06:10AM (#18756975)
But optionals are just a union type (T | None).
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Re:Ruby 2.6 by pjmlp on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @08:28AM (#18757321)
Languages without dependent types feel that something is still missing.
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