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		mercer on Oct 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two years of Elixir at The Outline Optional parentheses are pretty much a requirement considering how much of Elixir is actually 'just' macros. I'm very happy that the formatter adds them for me as much as possible though, because I'm also not a fan of how far Ruby takes it.

BenMorganIO on Nov 4, 2018 [–]

Agreed. I used to remove parenthesis as often as possible. Looking back at the code, that may not have been the brightest idea.

I really do like the coding convention though that lack of parenthesis can indicate a function meant to be a part of a DSL.

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