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Comment by NordStreamYacht

9 hours ago

I'm still fighting with Elixir and losing - for some reason I can't get my head around all the slightly different ways to initialise stuff.

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dnautics  8 hours ago

"slightly different ways to initialise stuff."

can you elaborate? theres only what 11 datatypes in elixir?

  • buzzerbetrayed  7 hours ago

    Perhaps they are referring to the syntactic sugar around keyword lists?

    [a: 1, b: 2] == [{:a, 1}, {:b, 2}]

    Or maybe atom vs string keys in maps?

    %{a: 1} vs %{"b" => 1}

    Or keyword lists always needing to come last in lists?

    [some: :value, :another] # error

    [:another, some: :value] # valid

    Or maybe something else entirely. Those are just things I remember having to lookup repeatedly when I was first learning elixir.