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Then what you have is not "anything". You have an expression problem: Either each element has some "handler" that does the right thing for that data type. Or
by Peaker 8y ago
Then what you have is not "anything". You have an expression problem:
Either each element has some "handler" that does the right thing for that data type.
Or you have a set of cases that each data can be, and you handle them all.
Neither is just "any type". And static types are very suitable to describe either.