It’s quite common to have functions in a module take the data abstraction/state of that module as a first argument. Do you call that argument something special or just go by naming it on a case by case basis?
defmodule Garden do
...
def sow(garden, seed) do ...
def harvest(garden, plant) do ...
end
Using this or self feels kind of OOP and there isn’t really a this concept, so perhaps use the snake cased module name like in the example above? I just want to not have to make a decision about this every time I write a function
Also, is there any documentation on ‘ideomatic elixir’ that collect stuff like this?
I absolutely don’t mean in this in any harsh way or anything, I really think it’s that simple. If the Elixir standard library isn’t ideomatic I don’t know what else would be.
For you particular question, if you look or example at the Map module, you can see that all the functions that accept a map as the first argument simply call it map. If you look at the HashSet module, the first argument is called set, so I think your guess was pretty accurate
Also, self is already a function in Kernel that returns the PID of the process where self is called from:
