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I read the book “Domain Modelllng Made Functional” several times. And it was absolute clear, that I want to have some types sich as
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I was surprised I couldn’t find any argument on this on the net so here I am.
When you make recursive function that deal with list ...
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Hi! Quick question from a guy coming from Javascript:
Whenever I have to handle some conditional behavior, like ‘do something depending ...
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Hi everyone, I have a function with two parameters with default values something like:
def(param1 \\ %{}, param2 \\ "") do
###
end
this...
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I put this under chat/ discussions as this does not regard a bug, just some design/best practices.
I have program that I am building as ...
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I have seen some good examples for best practices in sharing test suites:
Test a module for a given behaviour
Test a behaviour that use...
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I read the book “Domain Modelllng Made Functional” several times. And it was absolute clear, that I want to have some types sich as
“Unc...
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I would like a piece of elixir code to do something like the following:
defmodule InfoManager do
def initial_state(queried_info) do
...
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We’re using Livebook for data analysis and are putting all of our notebooks in a common private git repository. We’ve built up some utili...
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fee...
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