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Elixir Cookbook

You're reading from   Elixir Cookbook Unleash the full power of programming in Elixir with over 60 incredibly effective recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397517
Length 236 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paulo Pereira Paulo Pereira
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Command Line 2. Data Types and Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. Strings and Binaries 4. Modules and Functions 5. Processes and Nodes 6. OTP – Open Telecom Platform 7. Cowboy and Phoenix 8. Interactions A. Installation and Further Reading Index

Documenting modules


In this recipe, we will be using the @moduledoc and @doc reserved module attributes to add documentation to the modules we defined in the previous recipe, Enforcing behaviors.

Getting ready

Open the randomizer.ex and my_module.ex files created in the Enforcing behaviors recipe inside your preferred code editor.

How to do it…

To add documentation to our modules, follow these steps:

  1. We will start by adding module documentation to the randomizer.ex file. Add the following code below the use Behavior line:

    @moduledoc """
      This module specifies the interface for a randomizer behaviour by using the defcallback macro.
    """
  2. Add the following module documentation to the my_module.ex file below the @behaviour Randomizer line:

    @moduledoc """
      This is a custom module to demo the implementation of behaviours.
    """
  3. To document the randomize function inside my_module.ex, insert the following code right above the function definition:

    @doc """
    The randomize callback defines the randomize function...
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