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I saw this topic getting some traction over on the Erlang Forums, so I want to resurrect this topic here (previous discussion here):
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I am used to this syntax for a case structure (my question is about the _ -> part):
case {1, 2, 3} do
{4, 5, 6} ->
"This cl...
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I am somewhat new to Elixir, and finding that I am having difficulty grasping how I should handle logic for a series of sequences...
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I have some checks to do before returning a response to the user in controller: checking file existence in S3, checking some DB fields, c...
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I picked this pattern up from another dev and have made fairly extensive use of it with Multis:
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When creating multiple clauses for a function, should I provide typespec for each one? Example:
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I apologize for not being able to describe my question clearly in the title.
I’m not sure how to name this coding pattern.
Recently I f...
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I saw this topic getting some traction over on the Erlang Forums, so I want to resurrect this topic here (previous discussion here):
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I finished this working code which takes in an HTML page and outputs legal citations it...
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I am used to this syntax for a case structure (my question is about the _ -> part):
case {1, 2, 3} do
{4, 5, 6} ->
"This cl...
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Hello,
I am somewhat new to Elixir, and finding that I am having difficulty grasping how I should handle logic for a series of sequences...
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I picked this pattern up from another dev and have made fairly extensive use of it with Multis:
@multi Multi.new()
...
@multi
...
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When creating multiple clauses for a function, should I provide typespec for each one? Example:
@spec foo([]) :: {:error, any}
def foo([...
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I have some checks to do before returning a response to the user in controller: checking file existence in S3, checking some DB fields, c...
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When interviewing candidates for Javascript roles I usually have ...
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Hello. I’m thinking the way to handle nil in case.
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{:phoenix, "~> 1.4.1"},
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