Re:Sshole
by win311fwg on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:56AM
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> In languages with sum types, this cannot happen.
Funny, C has sum types (coproduct is a sum type) and it still happened.
The use of sum types may have helped, especially when combined with a tag which is trivial to do in C, but a language having sum types does not imply that the authors will use them. No language can save a reckless developer.
Funny, C has sum types (coproduct is a sum type) and it still happened.
The use of sum types may have helped, especially when combined with a tag which is trivial to do in C, but a language having sum types does not imply that the authors will use them. No language can save a reckless developer.