New EEP draft: Pinning operator ^ in patterns

[Rickard Green]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 9:10 PM Richard Carlsson <carlsson.richard@REDACTED>
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
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