What is the name given to @foo

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This will sound like a daft question, but when discussing code with people we’re never quite sure how to refer to

@foo {something: lol}

Is it known as an attribute? I have to fight by rails background to not refer to it as an instance variable!

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It’s a “module attribute”.

See Kernel — Elixir v1.16.0

Reads and writes attributes of the current module.

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Thanks, my google (and seemingly doc!)-fu let me down bigtime!