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Discussion on: De-throning the List: Part Deux

 
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Rupert Smith

Ok helpful to know, you are currently just experimenting with stuff but no particular version where it will be introduced.

I don't have much code that uses List constructor pattern matching, so it is perhaps not such a big deal if that went away. It might be worth grepping all published Elm repositories too to get a feel for how much they are used.

I come from a Java background so choosing data structure implementations is natural to me. I do remember during your talk at Elm Europe last year, a Python developer asking why Elm has so many data structure types and how to choose between them. So I do think this List/Array merge is a positive direction to go in.