jeroenbourgois

jeroenbourgois OP

Just a random idea that keeps popping up in my head whenever I am pattern matching on maps. In Javascript es6 notation, there is this concept of a shorthand format to create objects, which I find very concise:

// pre es6
const someObject = {cat: cat, dog: dog, bird: bird}

// es6
const someObject = {cat, dog, bird}

Whenever I am pattern matching in Elixir I wonder how handy this would be to have, say:

def decorate_name(%{id, firstname, lastname}) do
  "Hi, #{firstname} #{lastname}"
end 

As opposed to

def decorate_name(%{id: id, firstname: firstname, lastname: lastname}) do
  "Hi, #{firstname} #{lastname}"
end 

Any thoughts?

First 7 of 7 Posts Switch mode

wojtekmach

wojtekmach

Hex Core Team

It’s been proposed many times, there’s a couple libraries on Hex for it. This is a good read about it: A story of regret and retiring a library from Hex – Andrea Leopardi.

jeroenbourgois

jeroenbourgois OP

Sorry, did not know that. Thanks!

rvirding

rvirding

Creator of Erlang

TANSTAAFL I’m afraid.

Sanjibukai

Sanjibukai

Thanks for the link.. It was interesting to read.

Sanjibukai

Sanjibukai

Hello co-creator of Erlang!! It’s a pleasure!

Just googled that acronym.. What are the “cost” you are implying?

NobbZ

NobbZ

I got a result… A German Wikipediapage, which linked to this: No such thing as a free lunch - Wikipedia

rvirding

rvirding

Creator of Erlang

I think the paper referenced by @wojtekmach gives a good example of a “cost” of a feature.

— All posts loaded —

Where Next? Top

Trending in Discussions Top

AstonJ
As the title says, please share what you’ve been up to with Elixir. Whether that’s been learning it, looking into it, making stuff with i...
2977 91561 914
New
byu
@chrismccord : I just saw the Extract AGENTS.md from Phoenix.new into phx.new generator commit to the phoenix project. My initial shotgu...
New
arcanemachine
I was working on an Ecto migration and I needed a timestamp. So, for the nth time, I looked up the different data types for timestamps, a...
New
AstonJ
Just a general thread to post chat/news/info relating to AI/ML stuff that may be relevant for Nx now or in the future. Got anything to sh...
New
type1fool
I just stumbled on a newly redesigned elixir-lang.org. :tada: It looks like @Software_Mansion did the work, and I think it is generally a...
New
juhalehtonen
There has been a thread to discuss the Stack Overflow Developer Survey on this forum every year since 2018, so here’s yet another one for...
New
alexslade
Fly’s CEO posted this recently - Turn And Face The Strange · The Fly Blog It says that Fly is going all-in on sprites, which is a worry ...
New

Other Trending Topics Top

JesseHerrick
Hey, I’m Jesse and I’m the main contributor behind Dexter, a full-featured, lightning-fast Elixir LSP optimized for large codebases. It s...
New
jimsynz
Beam Bots (or just BB for short) is a framework for building fault-tolerant robotics applications in Elixir using familiar OTP patterns. ...
New
Damirados
Hello everyone. After busy few months I am happy to announce v0.1.0 of Emerge & Solve. They are GUI (Emerge) and State management (S...
New
netoum
Corex is an accessible, unstyled UI component library for Phoenix that integrates Zag.js state machines using Vanilla JavaScript and Live...
New
ausimian
Emily is an Elixir library that runs Nx computations on Apple’s MLX. Install it as the default Nx backend and Nx, defn, Axon, Nx.Serving,...
New
mudasobwa
While I am working on the Language Agnostic Code Audit SaaS, which uses MetaAST (spoiler: I am expecting it to be in a good shape for ann...
New

We're in Beta

About us Mission Statement