Inspect
Explore how to implement the Inspect protocol in Elixir to customize data inspection output. Learn techniques for better formatting using algebra documents to achieve clear, nested visualizations of complex data structures.
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Introduction
This is the protocol that’s used to inspect a value. The rule is simple. If we can return a representation that’s a valid Elixir literal, do so. Otherwise, prefix the representation with #Typename.
We could just delegate the inspect function to the Elixir default. That’s what we’ve been doing so far. But we can do better. Not surprisingly, we do that by implementing the Inspect ...