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Are there other languages that rust where enums can store data? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most functional languages, like Haskell, ML family (SML, OCaml, F#). They're usually not using an enum keyword though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah, in language theory, this kind of thing is called an "Algebraic Data Type": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type