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Sometimes I want partial application and other functional paradigms... to reduce LOC by 90%

• adregan 3y ago
  I’m currently in the process of picking up elixir. When you say partial application, are you referring to the use of the capture operator `&`?
  • pdimitar 3y ago
    Not your parent commenter but likely they at least partially meant that, yes. Though that alone can't reduce LoC by 90%. Elixir is just incredibly terse and no-bullshit language in general. All the shorter code idioms together make for a readable and to-the-point code.
  • reeaper 3y ago
    Bad explanation from a noob (me), but basically yes. Functions just always fit together and I don't need ugly sprawling interfaces or pointless declarations of nearly identical functions. In Elixir when I want to pass a function with 3 arguments into an interface that expects 4, I can do something inline with no extra boilerplate like func(&1, &2, &3, <a default 4th value to be used in each invocation>)