Names, Source Files, Conventions, Operators, and So On
Identifiers in Elixir are combinations of upper- and lowercase ASCII characters, digits, and underscores. They may end with a question mark or an exclamation point.
Module, record, protocol, and behaviour names start with an uppercase letter and are bumpycase (like this: BumpyCase). All other identifiers start with a lowercase letter or an underscore, and by convention use underscores between words. If the first character is an underscore, Elixir doesn’t report a warning if the variable is unused in a pattern match or function parameter list.
Source files are written in UTF-8, but identifiers may use only ASCII.
By convention, source files use two-character indentation for nesting—and ...
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