> you need to reimplement the pattern matching algorithm

Just wondering, is this necessary because it's impossible to list the 
function clauses or because there's no straightforward way to turn a 
function clause into one hand of a pattern match?

Given the function clause and the list of arguments, 

On Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 12:34:30 PM UTC+1, José Valim wrote:
>
> There is an open issue to provide such feature. It is actually quite 
> complex to implement because you need to reimplement the pattern matching 
> algorithm, except it should go step by step and give feedback along the 
> way. It is also something you likely don't want to run in production, so we 
> need a way to disable such checks when building releases or similar.
>
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Bob <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> "No function clause matching X" errors are generally quite unclear. It'd 
>> be nice if all failing function clauses were shown, and even nicer if these 
>> clauses were diffed against the actual arguments.
>>
>> I don't know much about the internals of Elixir, but I don't think a list 
>> of function clauses is available at runtime. A possible workaround might be 
>> to recompile the module in question, hooking into @on_definition to record 
>> the clauses.
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