Mastering the Art of Programming in Elixir

Built-in Protocols

Explore Elixir's built-in protocols including Enumerable, Collectable, and Inspect. Understand how these support polymorphic functions by working with a practical example of MIDI file structures represented as structs.

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Introduction
Example

1.Getting Started

2.Pattern Matching

3.Immutability

4.Elixir Basics

5.Anonymous Functions

6.Modules and Named Functions

7.Lists and Recursion

8.Maps, Keyword Lists, Sets, and Structs

9.Processing Collections: Enum and Stream

10.Strings and Binaries

11.Control Flow

12.Organizing a Project

13.Tooling

14.Working with Multiple Processes

15.Nodes—The Key to Distributing Services

16.OTP: Servers

17.OTP: Supervisors

18.A More Complex Example

19.OTP: Applications

20.Tasks and Agents

21.Macros and Code Evaluation

22.Linking Modules: Behaviours and use

23.Protocols—Polymorphic Functions

24.More Cool Stuff

25.Appendix

Built-in Protocols

Introduction