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Re:Safer Enums in Go by politician on Saturday May 14, 2022 @12:16PM (#31379434)
The ‘safe’ keyword in the title is a Siren’s song to certain types of Rustaceans, so it’s not surprising.
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Re:Safer Enums in Go by tialaramex on Saturday May 14, 2022 @05:39PM (#31382827)
I was reading this because hey, safer enums. But I agree, Sum types are a must have.

Particularly, decryption should be Authenticated, and so the correct return type of a decrypt function is a Sum type, and if you don't have Sum types you can't do that.

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