[erlang-questions] Guards syntax for multiple values

[Florent Gallaire]

Hello everybody,

I'm not very experimented in Erlang but I read carefully books and
official documention.

It seems to me that the guards syntax is not as good as it should be,
i.e. too much verbose for multiple values.

do(val1) -> val1;
do(val2) -> val2;
do(val3) -> val3;
do(val4) -> val4;
do(val5) -> val5.

do(Val) when Val =:= val1; Val =:= val2; Val =:= val3; Val =:= val4;
Val =:= val5 -> Val.

It's boring and error prone to write.

Has a "in tuple" syntax already be considered ? Something like :

do(Val) when Val in {val1, val2, val3, val4, val5} -> Val.

Cheers

Florent

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