BEAM

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BEAM (the Erlang virtual machine) internals.

Virtually Instructional

This is a slightly edited version of the talk I recently gave at ElixirConf 2015 and Stockholm Elixir. Below is the recording of that talk, courtesy of Confreaks. Also, the presentation is available in all its glory as well as a PDF export. code { font-size: 0.9em !important; } Your Elixir

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Disassembling pattern matching

In my ElixirConf talk I said that pattern matching doesn't work in the magical way that many of us might think it does. As demonstrated in the talk, this is true enough when using guard clauses. But what if we're only matching on different arguments? Let's take a closer look.