Is this the correct code to add syntactic sugar for types? Base.:(|)(X::Type, Y::Type) = Union{X,Y} Base.:(|)(X::TypeVar, Y::Type) = Union{X,Y} Base.:(|)(X::Type, Y::TypeVar) = Union{X,Y} Base.:(|)(X::TypeVar, Y::TypeVar) = Union{X,Y} at first glance everything works const Maybe{T} = T | Nothing …

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Syntactic sugar for types

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Syntactic sugar for types

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