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Article by Martin Gausby
Elixir has a concept of protocols which provide polymorphism on data types and structures. In our example we pipe the result of generating a MapSet into the to_list/1 function on the Enum module. Enum is a module containing functions that work on data types implementing the Enumerable protocol; examples of these are lists, maps, and ranges.
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When a list in Elixir contains tuples, where the first element is an atom and the second element is a value of any term, it is considered a keyword list. Keyword lists have a special visual representation, and the square brackets can be omitted if the keyword list is the last argument of a function or macro call, or is the last element in a tuple.
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