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    7 months ago

    does ‘?’ have type definition in elixir or this is generally agreed design pattern?

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      If it’s like Lisp, then ? is just part of the symbol and doesn’t have any special syntatic meaning. In different Lisps it’s also convention to end predicate names with a ? or with P (p for predicate)