discriminated union

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The discriminated union of two sets A and B is

 A + B = {(inA, a) | a in A} U {(inB, b)| b in B}

where inA and inB are arbitrary tags which specify which summand an element originates from.

A type (especially an algebraic data type) might be described as a discriminated union if it is a sum type whose objects consist of a tag to say which part of the union they belong to and a value of the corresponding type.

Last updated: 1995-04-25

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discrete preorderdiscriminated uniondiscussion groupDisiple

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