It's official as far as I know, just poorly documented. I can't imagine why
it would go away, it's incredibly useful. But nothing is 100% safe before
1.0!

A list of missing documentation would also be valuable. Not sure where the
right place to put it would be though.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 7:26 AM, 'Rupert Smith' via Elm Discuss <
[email protected]> wrote:

> As aluded to in Brian Marick's recent thread, there is an 'as' keyword
> which can be used to pattern match on a union type in within a function
> arguments, like this:
>
> animation ((DropsPerSecond raw) as dropsPerSecond) = …
>
> No mention of it in the syntax guide: http://elm-lang.org/docs/
> syntax#union-types or the elm language FAQ: http://faq.elm-community.org/
>
> Is it safe to use it in the sense that it is an official part of the
> language and is not something that is not documented as it may go away in
> the future?
>
> ... I am begining to think it would be worth compiling a list of missing
> documentation and trying to organize an effort to contribute the missing
> information as pull request.
>
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