Improving my code using idiomatic elixir and pipelines

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Pronouncing `<-`

How about this explanation: You know Elixir’s pipe |> operator I presume, it is basically defined like this (but as a larger macro/specialForm/etc…): def value |> fun, do: fun(value) # Except as a macro, but conceptually it is this simple Well a monad ‘bind’ operator (in Haskell the >>= operator by default) is basically just this when elixirized: # An :ok/:error tuple monad def {:ok, value} >>= fun, do: fun(value) def {:error, _value}=err >>= _fun, do: err # And whatever else you want, any …