great,
just wanted to make sure this was the intented behaviour.
Good to know and remember the are not the same.
On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 09:07:50 +0200
José Valim <jose.va...@plataformatec.com.br> wrote:
> No because interpolation uses the Strint.Chars protocol that defines a
> different behavior for nil while Atom.to_string keeps a literal
> conversion.
>
> On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, eksperimental
> <eksperimen...@autistici.org> wrote:
>
> > I came across when writing a macro that created functions after
> > atoms. I had the idead that to convert from atom to string, we could
> > interpolate the atom into the string, or we could use
> > Atom.to_string/1.
> >
> > Interactive Elixir (1.2.4) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER
> > for help) iex(1)> atom = :foo :foo iex(2)> atom |> Atom.to_string
> > "foo"
> > iex(3)> "#{atom}"
> > "foo"
> > iex(4)> atom = :nil
> > nil
> > iex(5)> atom |> Atom.to_string
> > "nil"
> > iex(6)> "#{atom}"
> > ""
> >
> >
> > Is this a bug?
> >
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