Folks, please stay on topic. If you want to have a discussion regarding 
special syntax for the different collection types, please start a new 
thread.

mandag 12. juni 2017 23.52.25 UTC+2 skrev Robert Woodhead følgende:
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't this be a situation where a 
> little syntactic sugar in the compiler would make the medicine go down?
>
> For example, let's say that := meant "assign with conversion" in Elm.
>
> In the expression:
>
> a := b
>
> the compiler knows the types of a and b, and it knows if there is a 
> function x of type b -> a, so it could just make the substitution (or throw 
> an error if a suitable function can't be found).
>
> So if a is a Dict Int String and b is a List (Int String) then the 
> compiler would find Dict.fromList
>

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