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[–] alexdeathway 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

does '?' have type definition in elixir or this is generally agreed design pattern?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

If it's like Lisp, then ? is just part of the symbol and doesn't have any special syntatic meaning. In different Lisps it's also convention to end predicate names with a ? or with P (p for predicate)