There are theoretical name conflicts from not being able to say “only import this story” (e.g if you have a function with the same name but one less argument) what about import Mod, only: [func: 1..3]?
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 5:36 PM thojan...@gmail.com <thojansse...@gmail.com> wrote: > Say function `foo` has multiple default values (two required args, two > with defaults). When importing, we must specify each arity that is used in > the calling code, e.g. > > ``` > import Foo, only: [foo: 2, foo: 3, foo: 4] > > foo(1, 2) > foo(1, 2, 3) > foo(1, 2, 3, 4) > ``` > > I expected that I could only import `foo/4`, and be able to call `foo` > with only two arguments and three arguments. Why? Because there is no use > case to force an imported function to be used only with a specific arity. > That would even be a code smell. > > Could we "generate" [foo: 2, foo: 3]` in addition to `[foo: 4]` to support > the call using its default values? > > > -- > 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-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/28497895-3278-4de0-8423-99f9b9230597n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/28497895-3278-4de0-8423-99f9b9230597n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAK-yb0BCdHHJZ9DDV9zs%3DXrqc1LbsJMtYa45bHA_%3D2H3xZiXHg%40mail.gmail.com.
