How would you implement Slack's notification flowchart in Elixir?

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I might introduce a %NotificationWithContext{...} struct that contains all the data needed to check all those conditions. It would have keys such as channel_prefs, user_prefs, message_properties and so on. This way, testing whether or not to send a notification would be a pure function.

There would be a separate step to build that struct (fetch prefs, parse message to get mentions, etc).

So the high level code may look like

NotificationWithContext.build(user, message)
|> SlackNotificationStrategy.should_notify?
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