How to make illegal values unrepresentable? [duplicate]

Answer 1

This was answered for me recently.

Here's the post.

The context of your question is in regards to a valid email. The overall structure of your code will leverage Active Patterns:

module File1 =

    type EmailAddress = 
        private
        | Valid   of string 
        | Invalid of string

    let createEmailAddress (address:System.String) =
        if address.Length > 0
        then Valid    address 
        else Invalid  address

    // Exposed patterns go here
    let (|Valid|Invalid|) (input : EmailAddress) : Choice  = 
        match input with
        | Valid str -> Valid str
        | Invalid str -> Invalid str

module File2 =

    open File1

    let validEmail = Valid "" // Compiler error

    let isValid = createEmailAddress "" // works

    let result = // also works
        match isValid with
        | Valid x -> true
        | _       -> false