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1. deepsun ◴[15 Apr 25 01:20 UTC] No.43688082[source]▶

    type
        apple = integer;
        orange = integer;

> then any arbitrary arithmetic expression involving apples and oranges is perfectly legal

Same in Kotlin sadly. The whole point of giving a different names to a type is to make them incompatible.

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