Thanks very much John. The auto-formatter I'm using is https://github.com/avh4/elm-format, I also found it to be a bit much. I'm a big fan of automatic formatting so might look at changing these settings in elm-format, or if anyone knows of other autoformatters please let me know.
While adding type annotations I encountered something I didn't understand that I worked around at https://github.com/thomasballinger/loveinthetimeoftetris/blob/3f968afad490ebab54b4f0c3bafdf45b779ebc4b/src/Main.elm#L278, I tried to simplify the behavior and got it down to this https://gist.github.com/thomasballinger/a0d8b38fa7186ee2e608d4772f2ebe7e which I'd appreciate a hand from anyone in understanding. I did the rest of these except for switching to SVG, but I'm looking forward to that too. > >* I don't think I'll be using evancz/elm-graphics in the future since > I'll be doing less gamey stuff or want to work with canvas more directly. > How is this usually done? > By using Svg instead: > http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/svg/1.1.1 > > On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 4:40:38 PM UTC-5, Thomas Ballinger wrote: >> >> Hi Elm folks! I've enjoyed reading this list for a bit. I've written my >> first Elm thing over the last couple weeks and would love to hear any kind >> of feedback on it. It's an unfinished game jam piece I kept running with so >> the title doesn't make sense. >> >> code: https://github.com/thomasballinger/loveinthetimeoftetris >> live: love.ballingt.com (takes about 70 seconds to play all of) >> >> I was going to clean things up the way I know how, but I need to take a >> break to get some other things done and I thought I'd learn more by asking >> how someone else might clean it up. Please don't assume I know what I'm >> doing in the slightest :) >> >> Any feedback would be great, but if prompts are helpful: >> * what does this code make it look like I'm missing about Elm? >> * what do you think of the extensible record type aliases? I think the >> way I've used them is mostly terrible, I designed them up front instead of >> letting them evolve. >> * code style? >> * I'm using an elm autoformatter, how's my formatting? Is this style >> common? >> * I don't think I'll be using evancz/elm-graphics in the future since >> I'll be doing less gamey stuff or want to work with canvas more directly. >> How is this usually done? >> * I abandoned elm reactor once I started embedding in html, is that a >> viable workflow I should have stuck with for longer? >> * I was tempted to start a utils file or look for an external lib but was >> trying to focus on learning the stdlib. Are there pretty common util libs >> folks use? I sure missed some list functions. >> * I escaped to JavaScript anytime I thought it would be hard to do >> something with the stdlib, presumably it would be nice to use Elm for some >> of these things? >> >> Thanks so much, and feel free to contact off list if you prefer at >> [email protected] - if you do I'll report back what I learned to the >> list. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
