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Re:Two years of Elixir at The Outline by mercer on Sunday October 28, 2018 @06:04AM (#18319933)
Optional parentheses are pretty much a requirement considering how much of Elixir is actually 'just' macros. I'm very happy that the formatter adds them for me as much as possible though, because I'm also not a fan of how far Ruby takes it.
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Re:Two years of Elixir at The Outline by BenMorganIO on Sunday November 04, 2018 @10:25AM (#18376246)
Agreed. I used to remove parenthesis as often as possible. Looking back at the code, that may not have been the brightest idea.

I really do like the coding convention though that lack of parenthesis can indicate a function meant to be a part of a DSL.

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