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Comment by gf000

Sealed classes/interfaces and records are proper sum and product types.

The stdlib's Option type predates this language update by a long shot, so it doesn't use sealed classes, but it is now possible to have the usual FP "Maybe" type in Java:

``` sealed class Maybe<T> permits Some, None { record Some<T>(T obj) {} record None() {} } ```

(You will probably have to write Maybe.Some and I might have messed up the generic syntax as I wrote it on my phone, but that's mostly how it looks)

parent gf000 4 months ago

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