anders
I’m playing around with something like this:
defmodule Todo.User do
defstruct name: nil
end
defmodule Todo.Todo do
defstruct text: nil
def complete(%Todo.Todo{} = todo, %Todo.User{} = completer), do: nil
end
Now, writing %Todo.Todo{} and %Todo.User{} is tedious. Especially if you have a lot of references to the types from a lot of functions. I would prefer %Todo{} and %User{}.
What is the best way of doing this? Is there any good reason not to look for a shorthand here?
I tried this:
defmodule Todo.Todo do
alias Todo.User
alias Todo.Todo
defstruct text: nil
def complete(%Todo{} = todo, %User{} = completer), do: nil
end
and it works, but now the order of the alias:es is important and I have to alias everything with the Todo prefix. Doesn’t feel right.
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josevalim
If you want to alias them, then surely. Otherwise you will run into the conflicts you described.
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gregvaughn
The module aliases itself? Interesting. I’ve never seen that before. What’s more common is to use
__MODULE__as a compile time reference to the current module.anders
I’ve seen that in GenServers, but how would that translate to this case?
That just looks wierd to me. But I’m new to Elixir, perhaps my eyes haven’t adjusted yet
josevalim
If the naming schema is confusing, I can’t think of a better option besides changing the name. Why not call it
Todo.Listfor the whole list andTodo.ListItemor similar for every element?