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Simple/naive Elixir macro to check if up to N values in a tuple match for guard clauses
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defmodule Macros do | |
defmacro matching_tuple_values(n, a, b) do | |
# If we've reached n = 0 for the Macro invocation, we've already checked | |
# the elements at that index, so we can | |
if n < 1, do: true, | |
else: quote do: ( | |
# Check that elem(a, n - 1) == elem(b, n - 1). | |
(elem(unquote(a), unquote(n) - 1) == elem(unquote(b), unquote(n) - 1)) | |
# Then, check that this also holds recursively for | |
# matching_tuple_values(n - 1, ...). | |
and unquote(__MODULE__).matching_tuple_values(unquote(n - 1), unquote(a), unquote(b)) | |
) | |
end | |
end |
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