Elixir 1.17's ✨ new `to_timeout/1` helper!
Notes
In my previous tip, I shared how we can use :timer helpers to
remove magic millisecond numbers from our codebase. That makes it easier for our
co-workers (and ourselves!) to understand our code’s intent.
Well, in Elixir 1.17, we don’t even need to use those :timer helpers! 😲
It ships a brand ✨ new to_timeout/1 helper.
The cool thing about it is that it takes:
- Brand new duration structs,
hour,minute, etc. components, or- regular timeout arguments like integers and
:infinity
Just like this:
iex> to_timeout(%Duration{hour: 1, minute: 30})
# => 5400000
iex> to_timeout(hour: 1, minute: 30)
# => 5400000
iex> to_timeout(300_000)
# => 300000
iex> to_timeout(:infinity)
# => :infinity