<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 9:10 PM Richard Carlsson <<a href="mailto:carlsson.richard@gmail.com">carlsson.richard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"></div><div>I've added your attached EEP draft as EEP 55: <a href="https://github.com/erlang/eep/blob/master/eeps/eep-0055.md">https://github.com/erlang/eep/blob/master/eeps/eep-0055.md</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Rickard<br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Rickard Green, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB</div></div></div>