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Phoenix Web Development
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Phoenix Web Development

by Brandon Richey
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
406 pages
9h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding the different types in Elixir

Elixir has a number of different built-in types that we'll be working within the course of building our applications. They are the following:

  • Strings (sometimes referred to as binaries)
  • Integers
  • Floats
  • Lists
  • Maps
  • Keyword lists
  • Tuples
  • Modules
  • Functions (functions themselves break into two separate types: module functions and anonymous functions)

Let's take a look at the various representations of these types and use some of the tools in IEx to understand more about what we're working with.

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