Advanced Type Patterns

Advanced Type Patterns#

Learning Objectives#

After working through this topic, you should be able to:

  • Use NewType to create semantically distinct types from the same base type

  • Use Literal to constrain values to a fixed set of options

  • Use Protocol for structural (duck) typing without inheritance

  • Use @overload to express type-dependent return types

  • Apply the “make illegal states unrepresentable” design principle

Materials#

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Quiz#