List

Lists are ordered collections of values. They're one of the most common data structures in Gleam.

Lists are homogeneous, meaning all the elements of a List must be of the same type. Attempting to construct a list of multiple types of element will result in the compiler presenting a type error.

[1, 2, 3, 4]  // List(Int)
[1.22, 2.30]  // List(Float)
[1.22, 3, 4]  // Type error!

Prepending to a list is very fast, and is the preferred way to add new values.

[1, ..[2, 3]]  // => [1, 2, 3]

Note that all data structures in Gleam are immutable so prepending to a list does not change the original list. Instead it efficiently creates a new list with the new additional element.

let x = [2, 3]
let y = [1, ..x]


x  // => [2, 3]
y  // => [1, 2, 3]