PSA for beginners

[Peter Damoc]

Watch Richard's talk from the elm-conf. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8

Understanding the ideas presented there will improve your code in way that will make you want to cry with joy. 

What I think Richard is doing there is a demonstration of how to take a piece of brittle Carbon and turn it into Lonsdaleite.

Thank you for your attention. :) 
 

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[John Orford]

Thanks, this was really good. Really good. Really really good!

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[Richard Feldman]

<3 <3

:)

[Emmanuel Rosa]

Yeah, that it really good.

I also watched Richard's Side-effects as Data and had my mind blown. In fact, I was in the middle of writing a Wordpress plugin and decided to see what would happen if I tried representing the database access as data. It was actually pretty easy to do: I simply put the function arguments that would be passed to the database-manipulation functions, into an array. Then, I wrote all of the business logic based on that array of arguments. Obviously, at some point I had to produce the side-effects, but that code was minimal. I was able to keep the rest of the plugin's API side-effect free! I'm definitely going to keep playing around with that idea.