On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 10:44:01 PM UTC, Brian Marick wrote: > > I’m four chapters into a book that covers Elm, Purescript, and possibly > Idris. It’s to be a book with several significant differences from the > usual introduction to a statically typed FP language. One is that I’d like > to include lots of idioms and patterns (in the original sense, not the > “code examples to copy and tweak” sense). > > Three requests: > > 1. I have a chapter on `Maybe` that treats it as a type with several > idioms around it. Does the chapter make sense to you more experienced Elm > programmers? >
Makes sense for Maybe to have its own chapter. Possible also discuss Result in the same chapter? as they both are ways of defining computations that may fail. > 2. Do you have other idioms - for Maybe or for anything else - that you’d > like to see included? > > 3. Finally: I’ve written four books. They’re a lot of work, especially the > way I write them (which is to learn while I’m writing.) Do you think this > book is worthwhile? If so, there’s a bit on the Leanpub landing page that > lets you declare how much you’d pay for it. > > The landing page for the book: https://leanpub.com/outsidefp There’s a > link to the four pages (“free sample”) just below the blurb. > How about "Statically Typed FP for the Working Programmer" as a title? Richard Feldman's upcoming Elm book inevitably dedicates space to introducing Elm and the practicalities of getting a newb started with it. I think your book idea might work and not having to sacrifice space to that noble task, could instead contain lots of code patterns - could be good. -- 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.
