Releases · lubieowoce/sumtype

14 Oct 20:03

0.11.b0

e21db3a

Constant variants Pre-release

Pre-release

We only ever need one None, (), etc. After this update, variants with no payload (i.e. Nothing from Maybe[A]) can behave that way: we do Maybe.Nothing (access the singleton immutable value) instead of Maybe.Nothing() (create a new instance). This is enabled with the new constants option:

class Maybe(sumtype, constants=True):
def Just(val): ... 
Nothing = … # new syntax

or by inheriting from sumtype.future.sumtype instead of sumtype.sumtype (This will be the default behavior after 1.0).

Note: it isn't currently guaranteed that there only ever exists one Maybe.Nothing - currently, _replace(), .__copy__() etc. will produce another instance, so you shouldn't rely on the is operator. This may or may not change in the future.

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