The problem with that, for my use case at least, is that I want to be able to 
know that a list contains only Foos or only Bars because there are functions 
that only make sense for Bars and not Foos. And it would be kind of strange to 
have to put in a case for the sub-type I never expect to call that function 
with. And if I ever do then I've lost the type safety so the compiler won't 
catch my mistake. 

> On Aug 1, 2016, at 2:25 AM, Wouter In t Velt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> How about this?
> 
> type Thing =
>   Foo
>   | Bar
>   | Baz
> 
> 
> type ThingList = List Thing
> 
> 
> 
> That way, you can simply do:
> 
> List.length ThingList
> 
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