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		conradfr on March 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Elixir (2014) Not a function but when a module has a struct that you want to use inside the module you need to use the full module name or alias itself.

arrowsmith on March 28, 2024 [–]

You can write __MODULE__ to reference the current module. Or if the current module is a struct you can write %__MODULE__{}

conradfr on March 28, 2024 | [–]

That's not very pretty though ;)

IIRC you can also write:

alias __MODULE__

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