You might look at lenses (e.g. elm-monocle) to see one approach that might appeal to you. Lenses are apparently frowned upon by some, but I think they capture the essence of what you're asking.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 4:04 PM Wouter In t Velt <[email protected]> wrote: > Op dinsdag 22 november 2016 15:55:25 UTC+1 schreef Rex van der Spuy: > > But, can anyone explain why Elm doesn't let us do this? > > > My impression is that it has to do with the enforced strong typing and > type safety of elm. > > A record is intended for key-value type info where each value could be of > a different type. > And elm's greatness requires that elm always knows the type it is working > on. > Dynamic typing for records (which javascript does allow for objects) would > break this guarantee. > > So with a record, you get the flexibility that each field could be > whatever type, but you lose the dynamicness (is that even a word?) of the > keys. > With Dict, it is the other way around. You can get a value by supplying a > dynamic key, but all values in the Dict must be of the same type. > > -- > 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.
