<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>OK, I never get those ":" right, this_parrot was not meant to be an atom but a variable.</div><div>this_parrot = ... etc.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Den fre 25 dec. 2020 kl 11:41 skrev Mikael Karlsson <<a href="mailto:karlsson.rm@gmail.com">karlsson.rm@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>You are not pulling legs with a Christmas joke now Richard?</div><div>It looks too ambitious to be that, but I cannot get rid of the feeling.</div><div><br></div><div>elixirian: :this_parrot = :alive</div><div>erlanger: :this_parrot = :now_destructed</div><div>elixirian: :this_parrot = :no_no_only_de_con_structed</div><div><br></div><div>ho ho ho,</div><div>Mikael<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Den tors 24 dec. 2020 kl 21:10 skrev Richard Carlsson <<a href="mailto:carlsson.richard@gmail.com" target="_blank">carlsson.richard@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>See also <a href="https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2951" target="_blank">https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2951</a><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Ho ho ho,</div><div dir="ltr"><br> /Richard & the good folks at WhatsApp</div></div></div></div>
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