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will_pseudonym on Oct 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: If Not SPAs, What?

I wasn't readily familiar with the acronym ADT. It's "Algebraic Data Types" for anyone else in the same boat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type

tartoran on Oct 29, 2020 [–]

In CS it also refers to Abstract Data Types

will_pseudonym on Oct 29, 2020 | [–]

Ah, good call. Thank you! Here's a reference I found that explains the differences between those two concepts, as applied to Scala:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42833270/what-is-the-dif...

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