♻️ Refactoring complex `else` clauses in `with` (an anti-pattern)
Elixir's `with` clauses are awesome for organizing happy paths. But sometimes the `else` clauses get really messy and difficult to understand. Let's refactor that.
anti-pattern 🏷️
🔄 Refactoring an anti-pattern: complex extractions in function heads
When we use function-head pattern matching as control flow and as an extraction mechanism, we make it difficult to know what's important in our code and what's merely convenience! Let's refactor it.
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