> On Jan 16, 2017, at 10:10 AM, art yerkes wrote:
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> You could try elm-generic-dict to have arbitrary keys in dicts.
Thank you! I didn’t know about this. This will remove a ton of cruft and ugly
code from my code base. I use single-constructor ADTs all over the place, and
they always seem to
I agree with the point about adding helper functions for your data type so you
can treat it as opaque in most places. For the rest, though, you can also use
the slightly obscure 'as' syntax 'foo ((Foo s) as f) = ...' which allows you to
use both 's' and 'f' in your function body (with the additi
I recently had to chase down a bug where I was calling a function with the
arguments in the wrong order. The function's declared argument types were
each an alias for string, so the compiler happily let me swap them. In
order to avoid this in the future, I'm experimenting with using
single-cons
