CharlesO
Module level variables - undocumented usage?
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/lib/elixir/lib/file/stat.ex#L55-L58
I came across above lines of code in the elixir code base. It would seem these variables were defined at module level and used from functions within the module.
I thought we could only do this with @constants:
The temporary-storage documentation does not make it clear either that such module level variables are permited.
Could this usage be documented better?
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Linuus
Where?
In the code that you linked, you have this:
def to_record(%File.Stat{unquote_splicing(pairs)}) do
{:file_info, unquote_splicing(vals)}
end
unquote_splicing is run at compile time.
See: http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/meta/quote-and-unquote.html
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