Expand __MODULE__ inside moduledocs?

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1

I just tried it out (on Elixir 1.10.4) and using the __MODULE__ special form inside a moduledoc block doesn’t expand correctly. Is there another way to avoid having to hard code the module name inside the documentation block?

This is what I tried specifically:

@moduledoc """
   This is the __MODULE__ module and therefore this should expand!
"""
2

Module docs are just regular strings, so you can use regular string interpolation:

@moduledoc """
Foo #{inspect(__MODULE__)}
"""
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3

Thanks so much for that! That’s a great tip!