Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "In Elixir, you create a process by calling the Kernel.spawn/1 function".

A block of code is set as follows:

IO.puts("Hello, World!")

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ touch hello_world.ex

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select elixir from the Processes tab."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.
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