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I’m releasing TaggedTupleShorthand today as an experiment with Elixir syntax.
Field Punning
The aim of the library is to suppo...
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I’ve got this bit of code; I’m wondering why create_or_open_room always creates a new room, even when there is an existing child process ...
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I’ve just publish something I’ve been experimenting with:
Since the discussion about local accumulators I’ve joined some discussions on...
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When you know that the map has only one key (from a guard for instance), is there something more efficient than this:
[{k, v}] = Map.to_...
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How can I keep the original ordering of a Map?
I’ve created one and notice that after the creation, the order of elements...
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So I have found a pothole and I am not sure what the solution is.
I have a pretty standard JSON api in phoenix, I am using ecto, and I a...
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Hi folks,
I’m building a library and I have an interesting case when it comes to pattern matching with maps.
Would appreciate any help ...
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I’ve just released what I believe is a production-ready version of my library, es6_maps.
es6_maps hacks into the Elixir compiler to enab...
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I’m new to functional programming and I’d like to know the idiomatic way to convert a flat list of maps into a nested list.
For some bac...
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We all know that we’re able to build a map using the literal syntax using %{key1 => value1, key2 => value2}, as well as update exis...
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Lets say I have map like this fetching from my database
%{"_id" => #BSON.ObjectId<58eb1a7a9ad169198c3dXXXX>, "email" => ...
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Hi folks,
I’m building a library and I have an interesting case when it comes to pattern matching with maps.
Would appreciate any help ...
New
I’ve just released what I believe is a production-ready version of my library, es6_maps.
es6_maps hacks into the Elixir compiler to enab...
New
Hey everyone!
How can I keep the original ordering of a Map?
I’ve created one and notice that after the creation, the order of elements...
New
I’ve got this bit of code; I’m wondering why create_or_open_room always creates a new room, even when there is an existing child process ...
New
When you know that the map has only one key (from a guard for instance), is there something more efficient than this:
[{k, v}] = Map.to_...
New
Hey all!
I’m releasing TaggedTupleShorthand today as an experiment with Elixir syntax.
Field Punning
The aim of the library is to suppo...
New
So I have found a pothole and I am not sure what the solution is.
I have a pretty standard JSON api in phoenix, I am using ecto, and I a...
New
I’ve just publish something I’ve been experimenting with:
Since the discussion about local accumulators I’ve joined some discussions on...
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Original source of discussion: This topic on the Pragmatic Programmers’ Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix forum.
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To my knowledge, put_in, Map.update etc. all have the one limitation of not automatically creating intermediate keys when needed (for exa...
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I am constructing a JSON object (map) and I need to conditionally set a field. I’m trying to write proper elixir-way code… and I’m at a l...
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Hello, I have map which I want to convert it to string like this:
the map:
%{last_name: "tavakkoli", name: "shahryar"}
the string I ne...
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I would like to propose a syntax for merging maps.
Map can be updated via | operator, like %{map | key: value}
I believe it would be ve...
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Hi,
I am new to elixir and here is part of the code I dont like
slider = case Map.has_key?(attrs, :slider_id) do
true -> get_slid...
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Having written a lot more Phoenix templates as of late, I’m doing a lot more attribute checks than I would like. In Ruby 2.3 we could use...
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Hey everyone, this has been on my mind for some time and I’d love your input on it!
TLDR: I feel like maps are superioer for storing and...
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Hello everybody,
As it’s possible to partially pattern match with maps like so:
iex> %{b: 2} = %{a: 1, b: 2, c: 3}
%{a: 1, b: 2, c: ...
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I’ve done a lot of GitHub searching but I can’t find an erlang/elixir data structure similar to Java’s SortedMap.
I’ve been using ETS :s...
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Hello everyone,
I wrote a small library today called MapDiff.
It returns a map listing the (smallest amount of) changes to get from map...
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Hi,
I am relatively new to Elixir and need a support from more advanced users.
I try to do a simple thing → Flatten Map
But Elixir and...
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Hi,
so when I Map.put even if I use the string quotation marks on the key Elixir will render the map with atoms. This is further problem...
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I am new to elixir devlopement , my map is looks like follow
map = %{"name" => "test"}
But when i trying to access map.name I am get...
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Im trying to get one element and the rest of the map with pattern matching but I’m only get compile errors.
I came up with this:
%{“One...
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