I am coming around to the make things as easy as possible for newbs approach.
Elm is a big jump for people coming from JS, every little helps, including removing string syntax misinterpretations. Having said that, I suspect a total programming newcomer would find Elm right now easier than JS... On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 at 08:39 Martin DeMello <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed; I'll definitely miss being able to use primes in variable names! > > martin > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:28 PM, mbr <[email protected]> wrote: > > just learned that primes and backticks won't be on elm 0.18. > > What are the reason for their removal? > > I will miss the primes quite a bit. Am I the only one here that feels this > way ? > > For instance, I would have to write headerModel___ and headerModel__ > instead of headerModel''' and headerModel'' > In the prime case I count the 'while on the underscore case I will > compare its length. > > at the end of the day, I will just skip the underscore and use number like > headerModel03 and headerModel02. > > And my case for backticks, I understand it will make the andThen API > easier, but why completely remove it from the language ? > > I guess my main question is, What is the motivation for their removal ? > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
