First Time Reading Confusion

[Piping]

Hi Evan,

• My programming background is imperative programming language.
• I want to learn Elm because somehow I found that elm is ranked first for which functional programming to learn ( even above Haskell).
• I was confused by how type is being read.

I came from a C background and got eye trained to catch the identifier first and then discover what type is associated with it. E.g void (*foo[])(int a) foo is the identifier and foo is an array whose elements are pointers to a function take an int as argument and return nothing.

But in the elm, I thought the identifier can start in the beginning of line.
And apparently the type can have multiple words. For example foo : List String.
I know foo is a List of String. Is it List<String>? But how about boo : List String A B C?

Can you elaborate more in the guide? How does the compiler program parse the input and determined the type.

Thank you for this awesome programming language.
Best,
Robin

[harshshredding]

I was planning on creating a similar issue, but I feel discouraged knowing that issues like this are not being replied to -- it had been 3 years since this was created. @evancz Can you at least let us know what your bandwidth is like for looking at issues like this ? A 3-year delay is worse than the US government immigration processing time.