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
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