Worth noting that this isn't why they are called algebraic data types, which was...

		wetmore on June 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Algebra of Algebraic data types Worth noting that this isn't why they are called algebraic data types, which was a mistake I made for a while. The "algebraic" in algebraic data types refers to this notion of "algebra": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_algebra#Use_in_Compute...