September 23, 2020

Elixir Comprehensions - The "for" Macro

In this post we will be going over comprehensions in Elixir. A “Comprehension” is another word for Elixir’s for macro. It can be used to iterate through an enumerable, like Enum or Stream:

for element 

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September 13, 2020

Recursion in Elixir

As Elixir is a purely functional language, it doesn’t have loops. Instead, it uses a wide variety of recursive functions to achieve the same or better results.

Below is an example of a list and calculating it's length. Thi...

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