> Novel? For what year? 1970? Definitely not for 2023 Yeah I sometimes see this sentiment that you don't really need something roughly like sum types and highe

> Novel? For what year? 1970? Definitely not for 2023 Yeah I sometimes see this sentiment that you don't really need something roughly like sum types and higher-order functions to do things like chaining on them; you just need this one little special-cased keyword that will do 95% of what you want.