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Argument reassignment doesn't work in Elixir
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argument_reassignment.exs
defmodule Greeting do
def hey(name) do
name = name || "Tom"
IO.puts "Hey, " <> name
end
end
test_name = nil
Greeting.hey(test_name) # Hello, Tom
test_name # nil
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