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Re:Sshole by SkiFire13 on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:00AM (#50389078)
> type constructors

Nit: the type constructor is `Result`: given two types `A` and `B` (not instances of those types, but actual types) it gives you a new type `Result<A, B>`.

`Ok` and `Err` are called "variants" and can be used to construct a new _instance_ of `Result<A, B>`.

Re:Sshole by markasoftware on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:41PM (#50398887)
Ah, thanks! I'd remembered the term "data constructor" from Haskell and called it a type constructor instead.