This and the other “Deck” posts are a repurposing of flashcard study decks to Q&A blog posts. Google was not showing love to this content as a set of flashcards and I didn’t want to delete them entirely, I hope you find it useful.
What is an Elixir Enum?
It’s a Protocol that defines a set of functions to operate on enumerable data types.
When should you use the Enum module?
When you need to perform an operation against a collection and the collection’s type does not implement the function you are looking for, the Enum module likely implements it.
What data types is the Enum module implemented for?
List, Map, Range, MapSet.
What does it mean to say "functions on the Enum module run in linear time"?
When performing operations Elixir’s Enum always begings with the first element and ends with the last, the larger the enum is the less efficient the operation will be.
What does the Enum.concat/2 function do?
It combines the first enum argument with the second enum argument.
=> Enum.concat(%{user: "kevs_burgers"}, %{name: "Kevin"})
[user: "kevs_burgers", name: "Kevin"]What does the Enum.find/2 function do?
It accepts an enumerable and a callback function as arguments. It returns the first element that the function passed to it returns a truthy value for.
=> colors = ["blue", "yellow", "red"]
=> Enum.find(colors, fn (color) -> color == "red" end)
"red"What does the Enum.map/2 function do?
It accepts an enumerable and a function as arguments. It returns a new Enum containing the result of the callback function for each element in the Enum.
=> colors = ["blue", "yellow", "red"]
=> Enum.map(colors, fn (color) -> "#{color}ish" end)
["blueish", "yellowish", "redish"]For your continued enjoyment: