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Re:Debugging with Elm 0.18 by leshow on Monday November 14, 2016 @04:57PM (#12953739)
No, those don't really appeal to me. I think Elm had a great middle ground for a while pre-0.16 with Signals. I'm just disappointed at what I see as a lack of positive change for the language. The more stuff that becomes compiler magic the worse the language is going to get IMO.
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Re:Debugging with Elm 0.18 by Skinney on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:27PM (#12954298)
> The more stuff that becomes compiler magic the worse the language is going to get IMO.

Not sure what you mean here. Elm 0.18 has less compiler magic, not more.

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Re:Debugging with Elm 0.18 by HappyAndHarmles on Monday November 14, 2016 @08:45PM (#12954954)
One such magic is the "comparable" thing. See http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/elm-is-wrong and https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/774
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Re:Debugging with Elm 0.18 by Skinney on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:30AM (#12955854)
Yes, but that's not new in 0.18
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Re:Debugging with Elm 0.18 by leshow on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @08:33PM (#12973412)
Did you read my comment? I mentioned the removal of Signals and it's replacement with the 'magic' Html.app
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Re:Debugging with Elm 0.18 by Skinney on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:32AM (#12974643)
Html.App used to be a namespace, I suspect you mean Program? In any case, how is that any more, or less, magic than Signals? Considering that the compiler has removed syntax in later versions, later versions of Elm has less magic than earlier versions.
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