I thought I'd bump this, I'd appreciate a pointer of something to read or
an example that might clarify things.
On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 12:43:13 PM UTC-4, Thomas Ballinger wrote:
>
> I can see experimentally this is the case, but would someone mind spelling
> this out a bit for me? I think I don't understand
> * why the order of lines 55/56 matter
> * how HasX (HasXAndY {}) and HasXAndY (Has X a) could behave differently
> * what the error message is trying to say; what is the difference between
> HasX { ..., x : ... } and HasX {...}
> but those may be the wrong questions.
>
> On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 11:44:26 PM UTC-4, John Bugner wrote:
>>
>> >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
>>
>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fthomasballinger%2Floveinthetimeoftetris%2Fblob%2F3f968afad490ebab54b4f0c3bafdf45b779ebc4b%2Fsrc%2FMain.elm%23L278&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHWWle8K9N4ns0hPN_ZsfHuLhyhMA>,
>>
>> I tried to simplify the behavior and got it down to this
>> https://gist.github.com/thomasballinger/a0d8b38fa7186ee2e608d4772f2ebe7e
>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fthomasballinger%2Fa0d8b38fa7186ee2e608d4772f2ebe7e&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGqGdcDpNNLJcdHYuk4QmwUE0kuzA>
>> which
>> I'd appreciate a hand from anyone in understanding.
>> I haven't used extensible records very much, but I think it's because
>> the signatures don't match.
>> The first is:
>> >hasBothXAndY : HasXAndY (HasX a)
>> but the other is:
>> >fieldOfBothTypes : HasX (HasXAndY {})
>> The order matters.
>>
>> (Btw, the (<|) function is the opposite of (|>). I personally use only
>> the former, because it does things in the same order that you normally
>> write a function. The latter makes things look "backwards".)
>>
>> On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 7:06:13 PM UTC-5, Thomas Ballinger wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
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