How do you refer to the Match Operator when reading code?

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@grych

Actually, it is not true. name will be re-bound.

name = "any other value"
name = "José"

Oh, yes! You’re right. My brain relapsed to “Erlang-mode” when writing that

Which is funny, because I just started a thread about this exact topic:

First encounter with variable rebinding in pattern matching

As I’m currently in the early stages of learning Elixir, having learned Erlang first, I’m encountering some curiosities and confusions. I thought I’d share them. Here is the first such topic. This is explained in more detail on pages 15-19 in Programming Elixir. In Elixir, we can do this: Interactive Elixir (1.6.5) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help) iex(1)> a = 1 1 iex(2)> a = 2 2 If we try the same thing in Erlang, this happens: Eshell V8.3 (abort with ^G) 1> A = 1. 1 2> A =…