Chapter 11Getting Functional with Elixir
by Dave Thomas
In the preceding chapter, we looked at the basics of pattern matching and saw how it is universal in Elixir—it’s the only way to bind a value to a variable or parameter. That may have seemed like an unusual way to start talking about functional programming, but it’s very natural for Elixir. And pattern matching really shines when we apply it to functions, which we’ll explore in depth in this chapter.
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