Thanks for all your replies everyone!! I'm glad to have confirmation that this really is impossible and it's not just me.
I think for now I'm just going to leave it as is. It's nice and simple and I understand it :) But, can anyone explain why Elm doesn't let us do 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.