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SemanticStrengh
on May 11, 2022
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no the feature you're looking for is sealed classes, see e.g. Kotlin. Rust enum variants cannot be externally defined classes
the_duke
on May 11, 2022
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That's completely orthogonal to ADT vs enum.
SemanticStrengh
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Enums enable two things: check current type from union of types and exhaustivity check in switch
The former is solved by reflection, the latter by sealed classes.
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