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Re:The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Chur... by mrkeen on Thursday February 04, 2021 @01:48PM (#26028492)
We got Streams that don't short-circuit properly and Optionals that throw NullPointerExceptions, what creative fuck-ups do you reckon we'll get with sum types & pattern matching?
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Re:The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Chur... by Twisol on Thursday February 04, 2021 @02:46PM (#26029010)
Shh, you've said the quiet part out loud ;)
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