Module Attributes
Elixir modules each have associated metadata. Each item of metadata is called an attribute of the module and is identified by a name. Inside a module, you can access these attributes by prefixing the name with an at sign (@).
You can give an attribute a value using the syntax
| | @name value |
This works only at the top level of a module—you cannot set an attribute value inside a function definition. You can, however, access attributes inside functions.
| mm/attributes.exs | |
| | defmodule Example do |
| | @author "Dave Thomas" |
| | def get_author do |
| | @author |
| | end |
| | end |
| | |
| | IO.puts "Example was written by #{Example.get_author}" |
You can set the same attribute multiple times in a module. If you access that attribute in a named ...
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