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icebraining on Feb 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State ...

    class Wizard extends Player {
      type T  = Dagger | Staff
      var weapon: T = null
    }

The billion-dollar mistake in a new language? What a waste.

boubiyeah on Feb 27, 2018 [–]

Yeah that freaking blows. They keep it for compatibility with java. It's not idiomatic code though, you would use an Option.

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