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Elm Weekly - Issue #182

Elm Weekly
Elm Weekly - Issue #182
By Alex Korban • Issue #182 • View online

Articles and Discussion
Joël Quenneville considers why it’s good that wrapping primitives in custom types restricts available operations.
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Models That Match Reality
Models That Match Reality
In another post, Joël talks about building models that make impossible states impossible.
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Tools and Projects
The set of elm-review rules continues to expand at pace. There are well over 40 rules available. Here are a couple of recent examples (note that elm-review can not only check code but also generate it):
This rule by SiriusStarr checks pipelines (|>, <|, >>, << and parenthesised) to enforce things like maximum length.
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This rule by lue generates record field lenses for various lens packages (eg. arturopala/elm-monocle and z5h/zipper).
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Talks and Podcasts
Elm Radio episode 41: elm-markdown
Elm Radio episode 41: elm-markdown
Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels talk about the philosophy of extensibility in dillonkearns/elm-markdown, and how to use the parsed Markdown blocks to do fun transformations. 
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Loïc Knuchel and Tereza Sokol do some live coding to implement a new SQL parser for the Azimutt database schema explorer:
SQL parser in Elm with Tereza Sokol [EN]
SQL parser in Elm with Tereza Sokol [EN]
That's it for this week!
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