Hi thanks.  I was missing the Result library entirely!

On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 12:04:14 AM UTC-7, Peter Damoc wrote:
>
> When you do something that can fail in some way, Elm gives you back a type 
> that has the failure covered so that you can treat it properly. 
> The two most frequently used types are 
> - *Result* where you either have Ok someType  OR  Err someFailureType 
> - *Maybe* where you either have Just someType OR Nothing 
>
> In both cases, if you are 100% sure that the operation cannot fail or you 
> don't want to cover the fail case, you can provide a default value and 
> unpack the type 
>
> Result.withDefault defaultValue someResult 
>
> or 
>
> Maybe.withDefault defaultValue someMaybe
>
>
> You can read more in the Error handling section of the guide:
> https://guide.elm-lang.org/error_handling/
>
>
>
> ...
>

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