Great, thanks! Will try my hand at a PR :)
On 6 Jul 2020, 11:58 +0100, José Valim <[email protected]>, wrote:
> Sounds good to me. Adding new bang variants are relatively straight-forward. 
> Can you please send a PR? Also, for consistency reasons, can you please 
> change Access.at/1 to become Access.at(index, default \\ nil)?
>
> Thank you!
>
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:40 PM Henrik N <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I propose adding an `Access.at!` that raises when the given index is out 
> > > of bounds, analogous to `Access.key!`.
> > >
> > > The current `Access.at` is not nil safe as discussed in 
> > > https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/CvdW1FsvSf0/m/nlvxkThuEwAJ,
> > >  but it's also not analogous to `Access.key!`.
> > >
> > > I specifically want it to raise and point to being out of range (or 
> > > whatever the terminology is), rather than causing nil errors further down 
> > > the line.
> > >
> > > Current behaviour with `Access.at`:
> > >
> > > # Happy case. Everything exists.
> > > iex(20)> get_in([%{key: "value"}], [Access.at(0), :key])
> > > "value"
> > >
> > > # Nil safe when index is out of bounds.
> > > iex(21)> get_in([%{key: "value"}], [Access.at(1), :key])
> > > nil
> > >
> > > # Not nil safe, but error doesn't point to the array index.
> > > iex(22)> get_in([%{key: "value"}], [Access.at(1), Access.key!(:key)])
> > > ** (RuntimeError) Access.key!/1 expected a map/struct, got: nil
> > >     (elixir 1.10.3) lib/access.ex:514: anonymous fn/4 in Access.key!/1
> > >
> > > I propose something like this behaviour, with `Access.at!`:
> > >
> > > # Happy case – behaves the same.
> > > iex(20)> get_in([%{key: "value"}], [Access.at!(0), :key])
> > > "value"
> > >
> > > # Explodes.
> > > iex(21)> get_in([%{key: "value"}], [Access.at!(1), :key])
> > > ** (FooError) index 1 not found in: [%{key: "value"}]. Its highest index 
> > > is 0.
> > >
> > > # Explodes in the same way.
> > > iex(22)> get_in([%{key: "value"}], [Access.at(1), Access.key!(:key)])
> > > ** (FooError) index 1 not found in: [%{key: "value"}]. Its highest index 
> > > is 0.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
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