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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by AnimalMuppet on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:23PM (#23714929)
Hmm. Instead of a sum type, it returns (in essence) a product type.
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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by SmooL on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:30AM (#23791793)
Good point; I guess that's really crux of the issue: we use it as a sum Type, but the compiler sees it only as a product Type
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