May 16, 2016
2:45 p.m.
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote: [...]
unions in Python are always tagged (since you can always introspect the object type).
I suppose that is true at runtime, at least if the pairwise intersections of the "arguments" of the union are empty as they usually are. But for a static type checker, the "tag" for the Union may be missing (which is the thing I was worried about). [...]
in Haskell as in PEP 484, Sum types and generics are pretty much orthogonal concepts.
Although the parametrization provided by generics make TypeVars more powerful for annotating functions that deal with the equivalent of sum types. -- Koos