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damnyou on March 12, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Don't Use Classes

Sum types and typeclasses in Haskell (or enums and traits in Rust) are a much better fit than classes and the mess that is operator overloading.

INTPnerd on March 12, 2020 [–]

Thanks! These definitely sound like what I should explore next in my journey.

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