Introduction to Handling Impure Functions
Explore strategies to handle impure functions in Elixir, including conditional statements, exception handling with try, pattern matching with with, and error monads. Understand how to identify uncertain functions and write more reliable code within your Elixir applications.
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The world is full of inconsistencies, and the resulting unpredictability is why we have impure functions.
Impure functions are functions that can return different values from the same input.
If we use a function that expects a number from users, what prevents them from inputting “hot dogs”? If we have a sign-in form on a website, what will prevent users ...