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Re:Programming Patterns I Like by rrobukef on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:08PM (#20314501)
Not a fan of prolog then? As an excercise, find the guard in this snippet (https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Babbage_problem#Prolog) and imagine such code in a team codebase!
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Re:Programming Patterns I Like by irjoe on Sunday June 30, 2019 @05:19AM (#20317225)
Quite the opposite :) My preference would be to rely on pattern matching (unification) in the function head:

    def transform_data([_|[]]) do: []
I just wanted an example of using guard clauses. It does depend on the actual code though, there's probably a more elixiry solution.
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