On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 5:30 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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. > You're right, that *is* confusing. We'll fix it. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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