So something more like https://github.com/lpil/sum or so (undocumented, but it looks right, it's the first thing I found via a github search).
There is one specific one I'm thinking of but can't for the life of me remember it's name... I wish hex.pm had the ability to search module and function names in a libraries public API... >.> Either way, it's not hard to write a library to support it though. :-) On Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 9:58:44 AM UTC-7, Louis Pop wrote: > > If I recall correctly this library wraps the values and does not offer > compile time checks, which is the inverse of what I'm after. > > I want unwrapped values and compile time checks :) > > Cheers, > Louis > > On Sun, 25 Feb 2018, 16:00 OvermindDL1, <overm...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> 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" <louisp...@gmail.com <javascript:>> >> 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, <overm...@gmail.com >>> <javascript:>> 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, >>>>> maen...@joshmartin.ch 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 <maen...@joshmartin.ch> 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 elixir-lang-co...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>>> 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 elixir-lang-co...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>>> 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 elixir-lang-co...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>> >> 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. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elixir-lang-co...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAJhqboFaJ1Nww0HwsBxrwu1%2Bhxhg0u-v2ZY7%2BF975A21O9Q6KQ%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAJhqboFaJ1Nww0HwsBxrwu1%2Bhxhg0u-v2ZY7%2BF975A21O9Q6KQ%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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