Lovely Week with Elixir

Re:Lovely Week with Elixir by lpil on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:43PM (#23252209)

All data is immutable on the BEAM with a few exceptions, so no mutation within actors.

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Re:Lovely Week with Elixir by dnautics on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:34PM (#23253654)

No, that's not true. Actors in elixir/erlang mutate their state through tail call recursion through the loop function.

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Re:Lovely Week with Elixir by lpil on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:59AM (#23256265)

I said data is immutable on the BEAM, actors can update their state.

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