"Nothing" and "Just 2" are noun phrases. "Something 2" is nonsense, from a grammatical point of view.
How about we call it "The 2"? On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Will White <will.n.wh...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Something 2" makes more sense to me in the context of Maybe than "Just 2". > > > On Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 5:23:15 PM UTC, Andrew Radford wrote: >> >> "Something 2" ? >> >> I think the popular choices <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type> >> are Some/None and Just/Nothing. I wonder if there are any other better >> versions out there... >> >> On Sunday, 20 November 2016 17:18:17 UTC, Will White wrote: >>> >>> What's strange is that "Just 2" makes it sound like the alternative is >>> "*more >>> than* Just 2", the *opposite* of Nothing. >>> >>> On Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 5:16:26 PM UTC, Will White wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm talking about Maybe.Just, of course. Just has always seemed strange >>>> to me, as if it's hinting that it's something other than just the >>>> counterpart to Nothing. I don't know the reasons behind its naming, but I >>>> think I would prefer Something, as in "something or nothing". What do you >>>> think? >>>> >>> -- > 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. > -- 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.
