Follow-up question; there's debate in Ruby as to whether methods ending in `?` are supposed to return actual booleans or just "truthy" and "falsy" values.
Is there a similar debate in Elixir or has it been more strictly defined? On 21 August 2016 at 19:08, Peter Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > It has no meaning syntactically. It's just part of the function name. It > is however a convention (especially common in Ruby) meaning "this function > returns a boolean value". > > On Sun, Aug 21, 2016, 10:37 AM António Ramos <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello simple question for sure >> >> what is the meaning of the ? in >> >> def aaa?() >> >> regards >> António >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >> msgid/elixir-lang-talk/CAEM0BxPu0w0pCpuNXzktOUUwpymxH >> 7cyTTu3EgUePtKOX86vJA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/CAEM0BxPu0w0pCpuNXzktOUUwpymxH7cyTTu3EgUePtKOX86vJA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/elixir-lang-talk/CAOMhEnyyRKa-mi7roBci-MvcNiFGEwL4mzPOdTo96%3D0%3DK- > h0eQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/CAOMhEnyyRKa-mi7roBci-MvcNiFGEwL4mzPOdTo96%3D0%3DK-h0eQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/CAD2T2ciW2BcufRhczzkxyoe%3DaymL%2Bnb2saB5xMAGJOPCiCEq0g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
