You are one, but not the same to all.

It does not matter how you do it or what you do, as long as you do it together.

Barcelona, April 2011.

I’m reading Programming Elixir and finding it fascinating. I never thought I would blog about it, much less so about such a simple thing as what I’m about to write down, but it’s hopefully useful for someone else.

The last exercise in Chapter 6 is about finding functions that provide a specific functionality. Elixir comes bundled with lots and lots of builtin functions, of course, but relies on Erlang for others.

The first item in the list asks for finding a function that converts a float to a string. Looking under the Erlang docs I found float_to_list/2 — I could…