like if i wanted to say "this type is a union of string or int"

clearly i cant change the base class of string or int.

You can use something like Arrow's

Either<L, R>

type.

true but... exhaustiveness.......................

They have that. You can use

when

with it.

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huge amount of fixes.

that was quick

very happy for inline classes

Also would we use a value class over a data class?

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I tried to do gradle kotlin:compiler run -script /my/script/path.kts but it's complaining about a missing -c command

O'Reilly is not working so I cannot read any Kotlin books 😞

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I am on 1.4.30

And have enabled complied ir options true

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