For fun and profit, I am writing a Brainf**k interpreter in Elixir. In one particular case, a data pointer should be decremented, and if it's less than 0, it should be set to 0 and the top of the data stack should be popped off.
I assumed that I should write something like this (which passes my : dataptr = dataptr - 1 if dataptr < 0 do dataptr = 0 data = tl data end but I get a compiler warning when I do this. It suggested that I use the assignment form of *if*, which is fine, but I can't find an elegant way to write the code now. This is what I came up with, which seems uglier and unnecessarily verbose for future readers. The first form above is much more readable. [dataptr | data] = if dataptr < 0 do [0 | tl data] else [dataptr | data] end Is there a better Elixir-way to write this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/17e1af05-5353-4845-8cb7-71320bd419a8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
