Allow sum types' subtypes to be used as their own types #3
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Motivation
Over the years, due to develpers' frustration with the enum types in languages such as Rust and Swift, where enum variants cannot be used as their own types, several solutions have been proposed to fix this and with that remove some unnecessary code duplication. One of the proposals which has perhaps garnered the most notoriety is the following Rust proposal. Ultimately, it was rejected due to being a quite a hefty change to the existing language, which could bring unforseen consequences.
Bento, on the other hand, is far from finished and as such I have mae the following PR to incorporate the above proposal together with a few quality-of-life features into the language.
Changes
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prefix operators have been added to explicitly do the above conversions much more succinctlylet
now needs to be used when matching to allow the above featurelet
if
-match can now have multiple possible patternsif
-matching can now also be used for matching by equality...
has been added as a valid pattern within destructuring patterns