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What attributes are common for developers to know and use in professional Elixir development? For example, there is:
@moduledoc- provides documentation for the current module.@doc- provides documentation for the function or macro that follows the attribute.@behaviour- (notice the British spelling) used for specifying an OTP or user-defined behaviour.@before_compile- provides a hook that will be invoked before the module is compiled. This makes it possible to inject functions inside the module exactly before compilation.@callback- used to a define a behaviour module, expecting a function name and typespec@vsn- used by the code reloading mechanism in the Erlang VM to check if a module has been updated@impl- used to identify a function as implementing a callback function for a particular behaviour module@spec- defines a typespec for a given function
What other attributes are we missing?
Edit: full-disclosure, I want to update the docs with a full list of these. They’re good to know 
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idi527
Maybe
@typeand@typepNobbZ
You have forgotten
@opaquewhich is for types as well.In generall, you can look up all “official” module attributes which are “reserved” in the documentation of the
Module-modulekokolegorille
Maybe @enforce_keys, but it is not for annotation