Refinements for sealed types
Brian Goetz
brian.goetz at oracle.com
Mon Aug 19 18:27:01 UTC 2019
>> So, given all this, we should focus all our ceremony-reduction on the
>> case of co-declared sum types. Which is mostly what I think I was
>> suggesting:
>>
>> - Infer the permits clause when all the subtypes are co-declared;
>> - Infer “final” for leaf classes in a sum type;
>> - Require explicitness in both sealed/non-sealed, and permits
>> clause, in other cases.
>
> How do you know from `sealed class X {}` and the rest of its
> compilation unit that all X's subtypes are co-declared?
By co-declared, I mean "in the same compilation unit."
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