I think that would work with what I wanted. I ended up deciding that having 
2 distinct types is what I wanted anyways so I don't really have a use case.

Em segunda-feira, 24 de outubro de 2016 15:49:50 UTC-4, Joey Eremondi 
escreveu:
>
> type Event = RE RecieverEvent | SE SenderEvent
>
> You just say that Event has two variants, named RE and SE, which can be a 
> ReceiverEvent or SenderEvent respectively. You just tag the values with 
> which of the "subtypes" it is.
>
> I'm not sure if you realize, in your "type Event", you've just defined 
> Event to have two tags, which are named ReceiverEvent and SenderEvent, 
> which have *nothing to do* with the types of the same name. Each variant of 
> a type always begins with the name of the variant, then followed by 0 or 
> more types, that are the arguments to the constructor.
>
> Could you speak more about your use-case for this? That might help us find 
> an Elm-ish solution.
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Timothy Williams <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Say I want to represent something like this:
>>
>> type Event = ReceiverEvent | SenderEvent
>>
>> where ReceiverEvent is like
>>
>> type ReceiverEvent = Receive | Process
>>
>> and 
>>
>> type SenderEvent = Sent | Confirmed
>>
>> and then if something is an event, it can either be a ReceiverEvent or 
>> SenderEvent, and if it is a ReceiverEvent it can be Receive or Process.
>>
>> I gather this is illegal in elm, but how should this be represented 
>> instead?
>>
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