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I am trying to write a macro to define a custom operator
defmacro infix_function(op, function) do
quote do
def (a unquote(op...
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I’m working on a project right now that makes heavy, heavy use of Decimal. I just hit bug today where >= was used instead of Decimal.c...
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I wonder if anyone can help me with this one.
Just for the sake of trying something out with my library, I went on to inspect the omitte...
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iex> map = %{x: 1}
iex> map.x
1
iex> map.x()
1
Why would anyone use the map.x() syntax for getting map value? I’d suggest depre...
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Hello.
I found a strange behavior of ++ and --.
iex(1)> x = [:a, :b, nil, :c]
[:a, :b, nil, :c]
iex(2)> x -- [:a] -- [:c]
[:b, ni...
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I think I do not understand something. Can someone explain why this works?
iex> [] ++ {:ok, "好"}
{:ok, "好"}
Is a tuple a list?
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How does the < work? By accident, in my code, I compared an integer with a list, and it gave me a boolean value as response instead of...
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I’m failing to grasp what the Bitwise module is doing. The documentation doesn’t have much (see for yourself). I have a decent understand...
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Is it not a right method to compare naive date time values using basic operators like > and < ?
I get wrong answers when I compare...
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iex(71)> (["a", "b"] -- ["a"]) ++ ["a"]
["b", "a"]
iex(72)> ["a", "b"] -- ["a"] ++ ["a"]
["b"]
Hi team,
Why having the () makes t...
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I’m failing to grasp what the Bitwise module is doing. The documentation doesn’t have much (see for yourself). I have a decent understand...
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Is it not a right method to compare naive date time values using basic operators like > and < ?
I get wrong answers when I compare...
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I’m working on a project right now that makes heavy, heavy use of Decimal. I just hit bug today where >= was used instead of Decimal.c...
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I am trying to write a macro to define a custom operator
defmacro infix_function(op, function) do
quote do
def (a unquote(op...
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In Elixir, operators are also simply functions. A unary operator takes a single argument, a binary infix operator takes two.
It is there...
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I think I do not understand something. Can someone explain why this works?
iex> [] ++ {:ok, "好"}
{:ok, "好"}
Is a tuple a list?
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iex(71)> (["a", "b"] -- ["a"]) ++ ["a"]
["b", "a"]
iex(72)> ["a", "b"] -- ["a"] ++ ["a"]
["b"]
Hi team,
Why having the () makes t...
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Hello.
I found a strange behavior of ++ and --.
iex(1)> x = [:a, :b, nil, :c]
[:a, :b, nil, :c]
iex(2)> x -- [:a] -- [:c]
[:b, ni...
New
How does the < work? By accident, in my code, I compared an integer with a list, and it gave me a boolean value as response instead of...
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iex> map = %{x: 1}
iex> map.x
1
iex> map.x()
1
Why would anyone use the map.x() syntax for getting map value? I’d suggest depre...
New
I wonder if anyone can help me with this one.
Just for the sake of trying something out with my library, I went on to inspect the omitte...
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