elm/core

Remove type alias keyword

pravdomil opened this issue · 2 comments

pravdomil commented

The number one question on elm faq is:
What is the difference between type and type alias?

So what about having no type alias at all and replace this:

type alias MaybeList a = Maybe (List a)

with this:

MaybeList a = Maybe (List a)

Since variables and types are distinguish by first upper/lower case, we know if that is function or type alias.

This way elm will become even more compact.

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