Ya, actually, I often use this style in other languages to be clear about the intermediate steps. My understanding though is that the problem is mixed with Erl

Ya, actually, I often use this style in other languages to be clear about the intermediate steps. My understanding though is that the problem is mixed with Erlangs pattern matching it can cause issues, because it won't necessarily fail to repeat the variable name, it'll just behave wrong. At least that's what I heard.