A Simple Elixir Macro

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An Elixir Version of Rails’ returning

A few days ago I was writing some code where just about every function ended

def func1 do
  # really cool code…
  result = do_some_calculation(...)
  Logger.info "func1 → #{result}
  result
end

(OK, so the actual code was more compelling than this).

I hated the use of the temporary result variable, so ended up writing an implementation of the Ruby on Rails returning method. The resulting macro was so concise and (I think) elegant, I thought I’d share:

PROGRAMMING ELIXIR
Dave Thomas

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