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		mssdvd on May 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Safer Enums in Go How come the authors did not want to add proper sum-types?

masklinn on May 14, 2022 | [–]

Because they ignored essentially everything we learned after 1990 if not 1980.

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