I’m wondering if there’s a way to get values out of a custom type, in an example similar to the following, without using a case switch. Wondering if I’m missing something obvious. type A = A Int Int getFirst : A -> Int getFirst a = case A of A x _ -> x I know that the above would be b…

If your type only has one variant* you can do it like this: type A = A Int Int getFirst : A -> Int getFirst (A x _) = x * More precisely, if your pattern is exhaustive.

Exactly what I was looking for — thank you!

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Accessing values in custom types

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