Extructure - a flexible destructure library for Elixir

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Great library for destructing!

I have several questions.

  1. Why did you chose arguments like age(25) instead of more common age \\ 25 like defaults in arguments of functions? This kind of specification of defaults is less intuitive for Elixir developers and it makes impossible to use macros inside the left part of <~/2

  2. Why did you chose _defaults_to_nil syntax ? I think explicit defaults_to_nil \\ 25 or defaults_to_nil(nil) is just more obvious

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