The Big Learn - Elixir

1. Elixir is not Ruby

2. It’s not quite Erlang either, Elixir is different

3. Assignment is not assignment, it’s making sure stuff matches

iex(18)> a = 1
1
iex(19)> 1 = a
1
iex(20)> 2 = a
** (MatchError) no match of right hand side value: 1
    (stdlib) erl_eval.erl:453: :erl_eval.expr/5
    (iex) lib/iex/evaluator.ex:257: IEx.Evaluator.handle_eval/5
    (iex) lib/iex/evaluator.ex:237: IEx.Evaluator.do_eval/3
    (iex) lib/iex/evaluator.ex:215: IEx.Evaluator.eval/3
    (iex) lib/iex/evaluator.ex:103: IEx.Evaluator.loop/1
    (iex) lib/iex/evaluator.ex:27: IEx.Evaluator.init/4
iex(20)> a = 2
2
iex(21)> 2 = a