Say I have a function doSomething : a -> Cmd b and another getArgument : Task x a. Can I combine them to get a single Cmd b? Classic example would be getting current time with Time.now and passing it to a function Time.Posix -> Cmd b. In my case I want to use timestamp in the name of a file downloa…

Composing a Task with a function that returns a Cmd

rupert October 9, 2020, 12:19pm 3

Neat idea @opsvager, I had never considered a recursive Msg type like that before.

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