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Somehow I'm not surprised to see your name pop up here! Thanks, I didn't know this idiom.

Jörg W Mittag
– Jörg W Mittag

2012-09-06 23:48:53 +00:00
Commented Sep 6, 2012 at 23:48
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When you said "boilerplate heavy" I was prepared for something much worse ;-) Java can be pretty bad with boilerplate, sometimes.

Joachim Sauer
– Joachim Sauer

2012-09-07 09:07:19 +00:00
Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 9:07
but this does not compose : you have no way to specialize type A without having to assert it through a cast (I think)

nicolas
– nicolas

2014-04-17 14:09:47 +00:00
Commented Apr 17, 2014 at 14:09
This unfortunately seems unable to represent some more complex sum types, eg Either. See my question

Zoey Hewll
– Zoey Hewll

2018-01-08 01:44:12 +00:00
Commented Jan 8, 2018 at 1:44

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