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by gugagore 562 days ago
I don't think "type unions" correspond neatly to sums. When I think of a type union in mypy, typescript, Julia, etc, those languages have Union[int, int] as equal to int.

But int + int is isomorphic to bool*int.

The unions you're talking about necessarily require a notion of subtyping, I believe.