it's nice. A+ 

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> On 20-May-2016, at 2:47 AM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> These are a couple of small wrapper functions which I think would be very 
> useful to developers. They create an idiomatic pathway for returning tuples 
> from a pipeline.
> 
> 
> 
> The intended use case is in any module-level function that is entirely a 
> pipeline, and where you would like to return the value that is the result of 
> a pipeline of functions in tuple form, and
> where you know the result of your pipeline will be either :ok or :error with 
> certainty.
> 
> For a simplistic example, suppose I have a list of ids and I write a simple 
> function to take the first id and return it in an
> :ok tuple. Normally I would have to do something like this:
> 
> 
> 
> def return_first(id_list) do
>   first_id = id_list |> List.first!()
>   {:ok, first_id}
> end
> 
> 
> And that is okay, but somehow it doesn't feel like idiomatic
> Elixir. Here you could just do this:
> 
> 
> 
> def return_first(id_list), do: id_list |> List.first!() |> put_ok()
> 
> 
> To me, that feels a lot cleaner and clearer. It allows me to express my 
> intention the in a way that feels closer to how Elixir
> asks me to think about programming.
> 
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