On 24/06/20 11:26 am, Guido van Rossum wrote:
A design pattern where a group of record-like classes is
combined into a union is popular in other languages that support pattern
matching and is known under a name of algebraic data types [2]_ or ADTs.

Whoo, that's confusing! I read "ADT" as "Abstract Data Type" and totally
missed that you were using it for something different.

I think it would be better to just call them "algebraic types" (which
is the term I learned) and not use an acronym.

--
Greg
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