There are at least 2 others that I know of, and I can find those for you too tomorrow if you want them, they have different features and focuses, but the one that immediately comes to mind is: https://github.com/expede/algae
Expede on GitHub has a lot of cool and useful little 'core' elixir libraries in my opinion. On Feb 24, 2018 06:46, "Louis Pilfold" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I started to implement such a library, but I would much prefer to use an > existing one. I was unable to find any, wild you be able to share some > links? > > Thanks, > Louis > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, 18:09 OvermindDL1, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are some library that add sum types to Elixir that do 'some' >> compile-time checks (like case's and so forth). It would be useful built >> in to elixir (though not any of the current library implementations) but >> the libraries already do support much of it. >> >> >> On Friday, February 16, 2018 at 6:35:03 AM UTC-7, Ben Wilson wrote: >>> >>> Can you elaborate on the safety provided by doing `%Struct{} = ` on a >>> function? There are no compile time checks that calls to that function are >>> actually of that struct type, just runtime checks on the data. Put another >>> way this isn't really a type check, but an assertion. >>> >>> On Friday, February 16, 2018 at 6:38:07 AM UTC-5, [email protected] >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hey Louis, >>>> >>>> I think it should include compile time checks. Mostly I would expect >>>> those for function headers, case blocks and with blocks. >>>> >>>> Dialyzer already checks many of those conditions, but I would like to >>>> go a step further. >>>> Your mentioned library looks really interesting. Making it work >>>> together with existing type specifications would be really cool. >>>> >>>> With for example structs, I can achieve safety really easy by adding >>>> *%Struct{} >>>> = my_input* to the function header. >>>> >>>> I would like to have a mechanism that works similarly, but additionally >>>> checks uncovered types of a sum. (If you would for example not cover the >>>> None of a Maybe) >>>> >>>> I think that this could tremendously improve the code quality. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Jony >>>> >>>> Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2018 11:57:00 UTC+1 schrieb Louis Pilfold: >>>>> >>>>> Hey Jony >>>>> >>>>> Would this involve some form of compile time type checking for these >>>>> values? If not we already have them in the form of tuples. >>>>> >>>>> @type result :: {:ok, string()} | {:error, string()} >>>>> >>>>> If you want compile time checks this would be more difficult. I've >>>>> experimented a little with compile time checks with macros, check it out >>>>> here -> https://github.com/lpil/sum >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Louis >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 at 10:33 <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> First I want to thank you all for your great work on the elixir >>>>>> language! >>>>>> >>>>>> Have there been some thoughts to introduce Tagged Unions into elixir? >>>>>> I would really love to use sum types like Either or simple enums in >>>>>> my daily work and have some support of the language in handling them. >>>>>> >>>>>> What do you think about this? >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Jony >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>>>>> msgid/elixir-lang-core/4052d8d9-6eda-46c9-b259- >>>>>> fb0f2e041120%40googlegroups.com >>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/4052d8d9-6eda-46c9-b259-fb0f2e041120%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>>> . >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >> msgid/elixir-lang-core/d1ac20e5-9198-47d1-91c4- >> cf6d6b0e733a%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/d1ac20e5-9198-47d1-91c4-cf6d6b0e733a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/elixir-lang-core/CABu8xFC0kWY2ncPW0tm5MbyMj8WFa > %2BD2v6bBamdB-1fyk7qu5A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CABu8xFC0kWY2ncPW0tm5MbyMj8WFa%2BD2v6bBamdB-1fyk7qu5A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. 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