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		evertedsphere 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming lang... no, that's a region variable if i understand correctly, so closer to a rust lifetime

wk_end 6 months ago [–]

It is, but your reply seems like a non-sequitur. The point OP was making was that it doesn't return an Option or Maybe or anything like that, meaning that there's a failure case untracked by the type system.

evertedsphere 6 months ago | [–]

oh, right, i misunderstood

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