Elixir is great, in this article however, I want to talk about the feature I’m missing most, a wall I’ve hit several times since I’m working with Elixir. After describing the problem in general I will present some solutions to it in the context of some real-world occurrences of the problem in the RDF.ex projects, where alone I’ve hit this wall multiple times. Along the way, I’ll present the new behaviour _reflection library I’ve published, which implements one approach for solving the problem.

This article is not about RDF.ex, but since all examples will be in the context of this…