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Andrea Leopardi
July 16, 2018
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PAPERS WE LOVE ELIXIR EDITION PAPERS WE LOVE ELIXIR EDITION
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“You know Yelp? Yeah, but for weed”– me
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“You know Uber Eats?”– me
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weedmaps.com/careers
ELIXIR functional concurrent fault tolerant
The Elixir core team
we existing research
Formatting code Diffing data structures Property-based testing ⚙
FORMATTING CODE
Code formatter welcoming to newcomers consistency across teams/orgs/community no style
discussions
print code with line length limit
%{foo: [1, 2, 3], bar: "baz"}
%{foo: [1, 2, 3], bar: "baz"} 30
%{foo: [1, 2, 3], bar: "baz"} 25
%{ foo: [1, 2, 3], bar: "baz" } 25
%{ foo: [1, 2, 3], bar: "baz" } 13
%{ foo: [ 1, 2, 3 ], bar: "baz" }
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The Design of a Pretty-printing Library John Hughes
Documents "text" concat(document1, document2) nest(document, columns)
"[" |> concat("1,") |> concat("2,") |> concat("3") |> concat("]") [1,
2, 3]
"[" |> line("1,") |> line("2,") |> line("3") |> nest(2) |>
line("]") [ 1, 2, 3 ]
A Prettier Printer Philip Wadler
group( "[" |> concat("1,") |> concat("2,") |> concat("3") |> nest(2)
|> concat("]") ) [ 1, 2, 3 ]
choose( doc, replace_concat_with_line_break(doc) ) DANGER: STRICT LANGUAGE AHEAD
Strictly Pretty Christian Lindig
Our documents color(doc, :blue) nest(doc, :cursor) ...
DIFFING DATA STRUCTURES
1) test two strings are different (Test) test.ex:6 Assertion with
== failed code: assert "hello world!" == "Hello, my world" left: "hello world!" right: "Hello, my world" stacktrace: test.ex:7: (test)
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An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations Eugene W. Myers
“Find the shortest edit script to turn a sequence A
into a sequence B.” = Find shortest path in a graph
O(ND) D is related to how "similar" the two sequences
are DNA strand mutation source code changes
iex> List.myers_difference([1, 4, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3, 4]) [eq:
[1], del: [4], eq: [2, 3], ins: [4]]
Now colorize
No modifications to the paper this time
String Matching with Metric Trees Using an Approximate Distance Ilaria
Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella
PROPERTY-BASED TESTING
Shape of input Properties of output + + Randomness =
Property-based testing
check all list <- list_of(term()) do sorted = sort(list) assert
is_list(sorted) assert length(list) == length(sorted) end
String.starts_with?(s1 <> s2, s1) String.ends_with?(s1 <> s2, s2) For any
strings s1 and s2:
Only Erlang tools (with different license)
QuickCheck: A Lightweight Tool for Random Testing of Haskell Programs
Koen Classen John Hughes
all the base ideas are there but it relies too
heavily on types
data Colour = Red | Blue | Green instance Arbitrary
Colour where arbitrary = oneof [return Red, return Blue, return Green]
(prop/for-all [v (gen/vector gen/int)] (= (sort v) (sort (sort v))))
Clojure's test.check
StreamData check all s1 <- string(), s2 <- string() do
assert String.starts_with?(s1 <> s2, s1) assert String.ends_with?(s1 <> s2, s2) end
Generators functions that take some random state and return a
lazy tree
Lazy tree a value plus a "recipe" for shrinking it
StreamData.integer() 3 0 2 0 1 0
StreamData.integer() 3 0 2 0 1 0
map(StreamData.integer(), fn x -> x * 2 end) 3 *
2 0 * 2 2 * 2 0 * 2 1 * 2 0 * 2
map(StreamData.integer(), fn x -> x * 2 end) 6 0
4 0 2 0
HONORABLE MENTIONS
How to make ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc Philip Wadler
Stephen Blott
Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine
John McCarthy
Advances in record linkage methodology as applied to the 1985
census of Tampa Florida Matthew A. Jaro
Iteratee: Teaching an Old Fold New Tricks John W. Lato
CONCLUSIONS
Existing research is AWESOME
Research tends to solve problems in a general/simple/flexible/elegant way
HDD Hughes-driven development
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