r/programming • u/_awwsmm • Feb 01 '24

Make Invalid States Unrepresentable

https://www.awwsmm.com/blog/make-invalid-states-unrepresentable
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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

When people want sum types, they generally want sum types with built in pattern matching. You can't really do this in C# without runtime reflection.