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voxl • today at 4:36 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

A functional programmer who casts away proper sum types and pattern matching is no functional programmer at all

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rgoulter • today at 4:55 AM

I thought lisps were all functional programming, and lack sum types and pattern matching?

In which case, what's the term for the "proper sum types and pattern matching" flavour of things?

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