> On Mar 13, 2017, at 6:07 PM, 'Rupert Smith' via Elm Discuss > <elm-discuss@googlegroups.com> wrote: > 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.
`Result` will be in the chapter after `Maybe`. (The big “Sum Types” chapter.) `Result` is interesting because it’ll be the first sum type that has two quantified variables, so it’s a good place to talk about “what should `map` do?” and related topics. > 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. Have thought about that but decided nothing. /Elm in Action/ is a lot further along than the last time I checked: I should download the newest version. Given that I want to also talk about Purescript and maybe Idris, I’m not sure how much I should assume an Elm audience. Which presents me the challenge of having introductory chapters that serve both people who don’t know Elm and also Elm programmers who will only want to skim them. (That latter is why I have little — organic, I hope! — sections that motivate things like type classes.) -- 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.
