>
> If you have taken the time to learn Elm to a level where you start to
> understand its core values
>
I think I'm already at that point. I like that Elm values simplicity and
clarity, even if it means bucking the current convention. For example, I
think switching from the Haskellian keywords 'data' and 'type' to the more
obvious keywords 'type' and 'type alias' was a move in the right direction.
Talking about Haskell, I've explained to people before that 'data' defines
a type and 'type' defines an alias, and it always confused them a little.
("Why doesn't 'type' just define a type?" they say.) Sure, it's too late to
change it in Haskell now, but at least Elm got it right!
I like that Evan has put so much effort into making the compiler give
useful descriptions of errors and how to resolve them. But, I ran into this
unhelpful error message the other day:
I need whitespace, but got stuck on what looks like a new declaration. You
are
either missing some stuff in the declaration above or just need to add some
spaces here:
3| import ModuleToImport
^
I am looking for one of the following things:
whitespace
But what caused the error? Not the lack of whitespace! I just forgot to add
an 'exposing' clause to 'module' declaration. Sure, the error says "You are
either missing some stuff in the declaration above", but it mentions
needing whitespace three times, and needing an 'exposing' clause zero
times. I could see a newbie to Elm getting confused and stuck on this error
because of the unhelpful error message. I admit though that I'm not
familiar with Elm's compiler, so I don't know how easy or hard it would be
to change the error message, and what other situations it would affect.
I have many other thoughts for small improvements like this. Should I simply
make a new thread that lists them all? I fear a bit that people will think
that I'm just splitting many petty hairs though.
regarding (2) if one creates a project that follows the [elm packages
guidelines](http://package.elm-lang.org/help/design-guidelines) all they
have to do is just publish it and wait a little bit for the caches of the
website to refresh.
After publishing a package, you are able to use it (install it with
elm-package) but it take a little bit of time until it is listed as a valid
package.
Also, concerning (2),
https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-package/blob/master/README.md#publishing-packages
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Felm-lang%2Felm-package%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2FREADME.md%23publishing-packages&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGMkDu9pPtmnqdtUHLMF0koHphlTA>
Thank you, I will read those pages and try it out.
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