Composing a Task with a function that returns a Cmd

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You could write a “Helper-message” that could look like this:

type Msg =
   ...
   | GetTimeFor (Time.Posix -> Msg)
   | SaveToFile String Time.Posix

update : Msg -> Model -> (Model, Cmd Msg)
update msg model =
   case msg of
      ...
      GetTimeFor toMsg->
         (model, Task.perform toMsg Time.now)

Didn’t check if this compiles, but does it make sense? :sunny:

you would send the message like GetTimeFor (SaveToFile "hello bro")

I think it’s quite nice that GetTimeFor is now reusable wherever you may need it!

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