Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
OOP in Elixir
Search
Wojtek Mach
February 17, 2016
4
300
OOP in Elixir
Wojtek Mach
February 17, 2016
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Wojtek Mach
See All by Wojtek Mach
Writing an Ecto Adapter: Introducing MyXQL
wojtekmach
1
150
Hex Core
wojtekmach
0
140
Recurrences & Intervals
wojtekmach
2
470
Building an Umbrella Project
wojtekmach
21
6k
Advanced OOP in Elixir
wojtekmach
6
670
Pattern Matching
wojtekmach
1
310
Formatting ruby code
wojtekmach
0
130
Featured
See All Featured
Sam Torres - BigQuery for SEOs
techseoconnect
PRO
0
150
Leadership Guide Workshop - DevTernity 2021
reverentgeek
1
170
How to Grow Your eCommerce with AI & Automation
katarinadahlin
PRO
0
79
"I'm Feeling Lucky" - Building Great Search Experiences for Today's Users (#IAC19)
danielanewman
231
22k
Tell your own story through comics
letsgokoyo
0
770
[SF Ruby Conf 2025] Rails X
palkan
0
650
Claude Code どこまでも/ Claude Code Everywhere
nwiizo
61
50k
A Guide to Academic Writing Using Generative AI - A Workshop
ks91
PRO
0
170
Practical Orchestrator
shlominoach
190
11k
jQuery: Nuts, Bolts and Bling
dougneiner
65
8.3k
RailsConf & Balkan Ruby 2019: The Past, Present, and Future of Rails at GitHub
eileencodes
141
34k
Jess Joyce - The Pitfalls of Following Frameworks
techseoconnect
PRO
1
31
Transcript
OOP in Elixir Wojtek Mach
defmodule Person do defstruct [:name] end joe = %Person{name: "Joe"}
robert = %Person{name: "Robert"} joe.name # => "Joe" robert.name # => "Robert"
defmodule Person do defstruct [:name] def say_hello_to(from, to) do IO.puts("#{from.name}:
Hello, #{to.name}") end end joe = %Person{name: "Joe"} robert = %Person{name: "Robert"} joe.name # => "Joe" robert.name # => "Robert" Person.say_hello_to(joe, robert) # => Joe: Hello, Robert
None
import OOP
import OOP class Person do var :name end
import OOP class Person do var :name end joe =
Person.new(name: "Joe") robert = Person.new(name: "Robert")
import OOP class Person do var :name end joe =
Person.new(name: "Joe") robert = Person.new(name: "Robert") joe.name() # => "Joe" robert.name # => "Robert"
import OOP class Person do var :name def say_hello_to(who) do
IO.puts("#{this.name}: #{who.name}") end end joe = Person.new(name: "Joe") robert = Person.new(name: "Robert") joe.name() # => "Joe" robert.name # => "Robert" joe.say_hello_to(robert) # => Joe: Hello, Robert
import class var def end end joe robert joe.name() #
=> "Joe" robert.name # => "Robert" joe.say_hello_to(robert) # => Joe: Hello, Robert this.name
joe = Person.new(name: "Joe") joe.set_name("Hipster Joe") # => :ok joe.name
# => "Hipster Joe"
Q: How does it work?
Q: How does it work? A: You don’t want to
know.
Q: How does it work? A: Macros.
Perhaps it’s not that bad…
Q: What’s worse than OOP?
Q: What’s worse than OOP? A: OOP with inheritance.
import OOP class Human do var :name end
import OOP class Human do var :name end class Doctor
< Human do end
import OOP class Human do var :name end class Doctor
< Human do def title do "Dr. #{name}" end end
import OOP class Human do var :name end class Doctor
< Human do def title do "Dr. #{name}" end end dr = Doctor.new(name: "Jekyll") dr.title # => "Dr. Jekyll"
Perhaps it’s not that bad…
Q: What’s worse than OOP with inheritance?
Q: What’s worse than OOP with inheritance? A: OOP with
multiple inheritance.
import OOP class Human do end
import OOP class Human do end class Spider do end
import OOP class Human do end class Spider do end
class Spiderman < [Human, Spider] do end
Elixir Guidelines
Q: What’s the 1st rule of writing macros? Elixir Guidelines
Q: What’s the 1st rule of writing macros? A: Don’t
write macros. Elixir Guidelines
Q: What’s the 1st rule of doing OOP in Elixir?
Elixir Guidelines
Q: What’s the 1st rule of doing OOP in Elixir?
A: Don’t do OOP in Elixir. Elixir Guidelines
None
• Elixir is powerful
• Elixir is powerful • DSLs, abstractions, semantics
• Elixir is powerful • DSLs, abstractions, semantics • Complexity
• Elixir is powerful • DSLs, abstractions, semantics • Complexity
• Simplicty
Thank you! @wojtekmach wojtekmach/oop