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Discussion on: What is the "<>" operator called in Elixir?

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Ben Lovy • Edited

In my head I just call it the "string concatenation operator", I've also never seen any official name for it. I don't believe it's used for anything else.

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Michael Lee 🍕

Yeah, I figured it's more of a symbol to represent a function or utility to do something. Just wasn't sure if it had a name. Looking over the doc I realized there's a lot of other symbols used to do things but don't actually have names such as ++ use to combine lists.

Think I'll probably be calling it that in my head as well :)