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Chapter 8: User-defined, algebraic types (and pattern matching)

Chapter 8: User-defined, algebraic types (and pattern matching)

pp. 456-523

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, Tufts University, Massachusetts
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Chapters 1 to 7 don’t give us many ways to organize data. S-expressions are great, but you might have noticed that they serve as a kind of high-level assembly language on top of which you have to craft your own data structures. For programming at scale, that’s not good enough—programmers need to define proper data structures whose shapes and contents are known.

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