On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Bahman Movaqar wrote:
Reading the docs on SRFI-99 [1], I need some help understanding what is
a variant type. Would someone please pass me a relevant link to read?
Hello,
a variant type is the same as an extensible tagged union type. Some
documentation about this
Reading the docs on SRFI-99 [1], I need some help understanding what is
a variant type. Would someone please pass me a relevant link to read?
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This appears to be a chicken-specific extension:
http://www.chust.org/fossils/srfi-99/wiki?name=variant+types
I'm not sure I understand that description, but appears to be something
like a union type?
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Bahman Movaqar bah...@bahmanm.com wrote:
Reading
On 12/15/2014 08:38 AM, Alex Shinn wrote:
This appears to be a chicken-specific extension:
http://www.chust.org/fossils/srfi-99/wiki?name=variant+types
I'm not sure I understand that description, but appears to be
something like a union type?
Thanks for your answer Alex. I didn't
I'll chime in that I also find it a little clumsily written, but that it
reads to me like variant types are, in practice, little more than different
ways of identifying the same data. Which seems like something you could do
with an additional field, but perhaps you aren't interested in exposing
