No, there is intentionally no way to globally apply a macro.

On Saturday, September 30, 2017 at 7:42:54 AM UTC-4, [email protected] 
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> On Saturday, September 30, 2017 at 2:36:30 PM UTC+3, Louis Pilfold wrote:
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>> Heya
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>> You could write a library that does this rather than modifying Elixir. It 
>> would be a cool project :)
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>> Cheers,
>> Louis
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> I wonder if I can redefine  'def' macro and inject it into every module 
> without modifying module to have 'use Something' in them.
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> /Gaspar
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>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, 18:06 , <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> I increasingly find myself writing more or less exactly same logic as in 
>>> @type/@spec in body of the function to check incoming arguments.
>>>
>>> Would it be helpful if Elixir compiler could wrap function into assert 
>>> check for incoming arguments and also result generated based on typespec?
>>>
>>> I think it would be very useful for 
>>>
>>> - while running unit tests immediately see where components interaction 
>>> breaks
>>> - keeping unit tests data in sync while developing - creates more 
>>> crashes when some stub/test data does not comply with changed logic in 
>>> function
>>> - running system and checking where it breaks the contracts between 
>>> components in run-time/while debugging (dyalizer does a great job to 
>>> extract information during static analysis phase, but runtime can provide 
>>> more incorrect data :)
>>> - encourage writing more typespecs because benefits of doing so will be 
>>> visible immediately and not when (occasionally) dyalizer will be run. So 
>>> make it type specification first class citizen that is not just for 
>>> documenting code, but also to enforce constraints.
>>>
>>> I personally would also love to have possibility for extended typespec 
>>> that would allow also specify relation between arguments too. Like 
>>> assert(arg1 + arg2 > 0).
>>>
>>> It seems that it may be achieved mostly by rewriting def/defp macros and 
>>> embedding asserts code generated from @spec around function body.
>>>
>>> This will slow down the execution of code and should be compiler option 
>>> to turn it on/off for production/dev/testing environment separately with on 
>>> setting in development/testing by default.
>>>
>>> What do you think? 
>>>
>>> /Gaspar
>>>
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