Guards! Guards! the What, How and Why

GUARDS! GUARDS! THE WHAT, HOW AND WHY by Wiebe-Marten Wijnja

ABSTRACT Guard conditions are one of Elixir (and Erlang)'s fundamental constructs. In this talk we take a '6 levels of difficulty' approach, explaining:

• what guards are, exactly.
• the differences between cond, case and with
• how guard conditions differ from similar constructs in other languages.
• building your own guards using defguard
• how to write 'guard-aware' macros.
• how to go completely overboard in writing guard-safe code (and why you should not do so ;-) )

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THE SPEAKER - WIEBE-MARTEN WIJNJA Developer / Contributor / Fanboy

Wiebe-Marten loves conceiving things that just keep working. A Computing Scientist in body and mind. Wiebe-Marten has 12+ years of practical web-development experience. In 2012, he started to specialise in working with decentralised, distributed and fault-tolerant systems. Initially working with Blockchain-based systems from 2012 onwards, the BitTorrent protocol, and other systems that allow for decentralised data sharing. He is an enthusiastic open sourcerer, a long-time developer using the Elixir programming language (maintainer of more than 20 libraries on Hex.PM), and a moderator on the Elixir Forum. You can also occasionally hear him (being wrong) in discussions on the Elixir mailing list. In his spare time, Wiebe-Marten loves making music (piano, marimba), running, dancing and experiencing new things.

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