Re: New EEP draft: Pinning operator ^ in patterns
Rickard Green <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 9:10 PM Richard Carlsson <[email protected]> wrote: > The ^ operator allows you to annotate already-bound pattern variables as > ^X, like in Elixir. This is less error prone when code is being refactored > and moved around so that variables previously new in a pattern may become > bound, or vice versa, and makes it easier for the reader to see the intent > of the code. > > See also https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2951 > > Ho ho ho, > > /Richard & the good folks at WhatsApp > I've added your attached EEP draft as EEP 55: https://github.com/erlang/eep/blob/master/eeps/eep-0055.md Regards, Rickard -- Rickard Green, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB