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Comment by mrsmrtss

3 days ago

Well, C# has more powerful pattern matching, only compiler exhaustiveness on types is missing today. In Java, sum types (sealed interfaces/classes) require all members to have the same parent, so they can be used only in very narrow cases.

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vips7L  3 days ago

As opposed to C# that doesn't have any form of sum types?

  • mrsmrtss  3 days ago

    C# will have more advanced sum types this year, it's currently in preview.

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