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		Skeime on July 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why checked exceptions failed Except that NoAnswer has none of the language’s (and it’s library’s) support for the built-in None. And you might run into problems when trying nest the data structure, which might be a reasonable thing for your users to do.

cubefox on July 16, 2023 [–]

I just think that the nesting offered by Option & Co has overall much more downsides than upsides compared to union types.

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