There is nothing we can do unfortunately, without perhaps changing upstream (i.e. how the Erlang shell system works). The shell reads line by line, and therefore "a = DB.Resource" is a complete line on its own, which will therefore evaluate successfully.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 5:34 PM thibaut...@gmail.com < thibaut.barr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > A coworker (new to Elixir) was quite surprised today when pasting this > code into IEx: > > import Ecto.Query a = DB.Resource |> where([r], not is_nil(r.datagouv_id)) > |> group_by([r], r.datagouv_id) |> having([r], count(r.datagouv_id) > 1) |> > select([r], r.datagouv_id) |> DB.Repo.all() > > Evaluating "a" afterwards here gives an answer that surprised him: > DB.Resource (yet the IEx evaluation shows the list of selected binaries, > which is even more surprising). > > I realise work has been done to make pasting multilines statements in IEx > better ( > https://hexdocs.pm/iex/1.12.2/IEx.html#module-pasting-multiline-expressions-into-iex), > yet I feel this breaks the POLS quite a bit, and wanted to report it back. > > There are fixes to that (e.g. finishing lines by |>) but I feel it is very > unnatural and far away from Elixir snippets you'll find online. > > Do you think it is worth opening an issue for IEx here? > > Cheers, > > -- Thibaut > > -- > 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/f216f8cf-e786-4279-9619-559ca0a00977n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/f216f8cf-e786-4279-9619-559ca0a00977n%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/CAGnRm4K-tB%3Dg1CFu1wbWzY%3D1iS7hU9UepWBaNbfg7ztzDTbGHA%40mail.gmail.com.
