Re:Tagged Unions Are Overrated
by mpartel on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:50AM
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Scala and TypeScript have (partial) answers to this.
In your example, Scala 2 would let Int32 and Int64 inherit a trait that Str doesn't. TypeScript would let you write a union type Int32 | Int64 that doesn't include Str (or add ExtraValue), and I think Scala 3 will have something very similar.
In your example, Scala 2 would let Int32 and Int64 inherit a trait that Str doesn't. TypeScript would let you write a union type Int32 | Int64 that doesn't include Str (or add ExtraValue), and I think Scala 3 will have something very similar.