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> IEx also has been improved to show the documentation for Erlang modules directly from your Elixir terminal. This is a really nice change for those of us who
by ianleeclark 6y ago
> IEx also has been improved to show the documentation for Erlang modules directly from your Elixir terminal.
This is a really nice change for those of us who straddle both languages. I've done a fair bit of work with both ets and the crypto module and having to jump into and out of firefox felt at odds with the rest of the development experience.
- andy_ppp 6y agoAlso the online Erlang docs are arguably even more utilitarian than iex docs output...
- elcritch 6y agoThat made me laugh, but it's true. The Erlang docs are like 1980's brutalist architecture. Functional but utilitarian. But it's great to have the Erlang docs in IEx; it's my favorite docs interface.
- ch4s3 6y agoYeah, IEx's h/1 function is great. I just wish it had some sort of built in search for when you don't really know exactly the Module and function you're looking for.
- vincnetas 6y ago"Functional BUT utilitarian" ? You mean "Functional AND utilitarian" because for me these both are very welcome features.
- lostcolony 6y agoThe conjunction here is purely to taste, since utilitarian implies functional, as well as not particularly attractive; both are correct (as would just 'utilitarian', since it's not a loss of information, implying as it does the functional aspect).
- andy_ppp 6y agoI read that comment less literally and more like “they just about work for their function, but damn they ugly” :-)
- lostcolony 6y agoSure, but do you interpret "functional and utilitarian" as meaning anything different? Utilitarian tends to imply functional + ugly.
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- dj_mc_merlin 6y agoThe Common Lisp HyperSpec on the other hand looks like it was written by a monk obsessed with dictionaries.