# Is defdelegate necessary?

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/is-defdelegate-necessary/20313>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** architecture, defdelegate\
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/is-defdelegate-necessary/20313 "2019-02-20T18:53:15Z")\
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Could you please clarify the moment with compile-time dependency? I’ve just checked and it looks like the code

```elixir
def reverse(list), do: Enum.reverse(list)

```

creates such dependency as well. How I checked this is I just changed the `Enum` module to unexisting and the compiler showed the warning about missing module.

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