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A library I’m working on has a lot of functionality related to string prefixes (technically binaries, but they’re mostly strings). I have...
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Prior to v1.18.0 I used the following vode to reach the struct definition in a module from __before_compile__/2 callback.
defp field...
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Has anyone come up with a good way to create some form of module registry that can be used to lookup a module by name. My use case is to ...
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I can “overwrite” native stdlib functions, just by not importing them from the kernel, right?
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defmodule Filter do
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Should module attributes reset after every function definition or does ExUnit reset @tag with macros?
Would I need @doc false for second...
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so I was using MyModule.__info__(:attributes)[:behaviour] to make sure a module implements a behaviour but when the module has 2 or more ...
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Given the following code:
defmodule MathOps do
@moduledoc """
This module provides math operations
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@doc """
This function...
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I was just watching a conference video on pubsub and there was a module attribute defined with interpolation and passed as the topic id. ...
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When a module attribute is based on the return of a function defined on another module, can we say we’ve a module dependency? Module A de...
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Greetings comrades,
According to: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/module-attributes.html#as-constants
Every time an attribute ...
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I have put some module attributes in my tests for easier reference, like this
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I’ve been tinkering with bringing Clojure.spec to Elixir (I’m aware of prior art here, but want to experiment with a different synta...
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Greetings comrades,
According to: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/module-attributes.html#as-constants
Every time an attribute ...
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While looking over the source code for a library I’m using, I noticed that there were several times that the same module attribute (@para...
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I have to read a CSV and currently this is happening at compile time as the function runs in a module attribute:
# Imagine th...
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Given the following code:
defmodule MathOps do
@moduledoc """
This module provides math operations
"""
@doc """
This function...
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How do I make this work in a defenum macro?
defenum EmailStatus, :email_status, @email_states
Right now, I’m getting:
warning: undef...
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I am just doing some poking around with module attribute and I created the following code:
defmodule ModuleAttribute do
Module.registe...
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When a module attribute is based on the return of a function defined on another module, can we say we’ve a module dependency? Module A de...
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I’m trying to use module attributes in my typespec, but I get errors when I do this:
defmodule KitchenCalculator do
@ml :millilite...
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Can you use custom attributes similar to @impl or @behaviour, but rather than using a callback function, only the function name is used (...
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The Elixir ecosystem has very convenient and powerful facilities for documenting code. These include Markdown, doctests, module attribute...
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