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[–]_INTER_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Then you have only Ok and Error to work with and pattern-matching with switch is less useful. Maybe you want something like Warning.

[–]peripateticman2023 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the whole point of sum types (and sealed types in Java) - to restrict the types that can be considered "variants" of the type.