> On Feb 22, 2017, at 3:21 PM, steenuil <[email protected]> wrote: > > About the code in the post: why not just use a String for the animal? Union > types are for when you have a finite number of different states, which is > clearly not the case if you're expecting user input.
Animals are full-fledged records, not strings. https://github.com/marick/eecrit/blob/master/web/elm/Animals/Types/Animal.elm > > Also, givenOriginalAnimal is just a Maybe.map. > http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/core/5.1.1/Maybe#map It’s a bit different. It doesn’t return a Maybe. Its role is to either apply a function to a model or leave the model unchanged. -- 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.
