Warnings are really recommendations - if you choose to ignore them you'll be fine. In elm, dangerous things are errors, not warnings. So I suggest if you don't like the suggestions, simply stop using the --warn flag.
On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 03:44:11 UTC+1, Incomplete wrote: > > Whenever I `elm-make`, I give it the `--warn` option, however, this often > makes the compiler generate warnings like "Top-level value `foo` does not > have a type annotation.", if there are a lot of these, it would make the > real warnings hard to notice. > > Sometimes I deliberately omit type annotations for top level values, the > reason is that these values are just some strings and numbers, (like CSS > colors, some constants, etc.), or even initial model of type Model, there > is really no need to annotate them, and annotating them would make the code > looks uglier (because in the case of CSS colors, you often have several > colors in succession, like `white=Css.hex "aabbcc" \n black=Css.hex > "bbccdd" \n green=Css.hex "ccddee", if you annotate them, it becomes > verbose). > > As someone pointed out, a good consequence of type inference is that you > don't have to write type declarations if you don't want to, however, I > think Elm may have a different opinion on this. > -- 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 elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
