How to define and call a local function with a strange name?

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Firstly those 2 articles describes everything you should know about operators:

https://medium.com/blackode/the-secret-behind-elixir-operator-overriding-to-a564fd6c0dd6

Custom Infix Functions in Elixir | Rodney Folz

As far as I remember everything else in this topic is not possible in Elixir unless you ask Eliixir Core Team to support that. I don’t believe that they would do so - just want to say that’s possible to support, but not supported as it’s generally not a good idea.

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Secondly there were already a similar topic:

Elixir Function name compatibility design issue?

So I’m trying to full-fill the interface of an erlang library, however it seems I’ve hit a design fault in Elixir in regards to intercompatability… In Erlang a function name can be any atom, so in other words anything, however in Elixir function names are arbitrarily constrained and it seems that an atom cannot be used. I’m needing to define a function name that contains $ in it, and I am needing to call a function name that contains a $ in it, however I’ve tried all of the following variants …