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Elixir Coding Conventions

I am a mentor on Exercism.IO. I had made a suggestion about using

do_XXX as the defp inner function of XX

They asked about other conventions. Do we have a standard list?
I could suggest pointing Credo at your code…

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I cannot find it again, but I recall @josevalim saying (somewhere on this forum) that where possible they’re moving away from using do_xxx and instead using either a private xxx function with a different arity (e.g. an accumulator as extra arg) or a more appropriately named private function.

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