Private Functions
Explore how to define and use private functions within Elixir modules and understand the pipe operator to improve code readability. This lesson helps you write cleaner functional code by chaining function calls and managing function visibility.
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The defp macro defines a private function, one that can be called only within the module that declares it. We can define private functions with multiple heads, just as we can with def. However, we can’t have some heads private and others public. That is, the following code is invalid:
def fun(a) when is_list(a), do: true
defp fun(a), do: false