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		Want Discriminated Unions in Kotlin? Use a Sealed Class (atomicobject.com)
		2 points by ingve 5 months ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

FrankWilhoit 5 months ago [–]

Discriminated unions are a terrible way to enforce type safety. They are a backport of a physical-data-modelling antipattern. Inheritance or GTFO.

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