For reference, there has been a previous discussion about then_if:
https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/uM_M-DWh42A/m/6pNKZcLyAQAJ?pli=1


Le ven. 6 déc. 2024 à 23:59, José Valim <jose.va...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi Juan!
>
> My initial gut feeling is that this approach does not scale. What if you
> want to delete a key conditionally? Should we have delete_if?
>
> It feels a more general approach would be to introduce `then_if`:
>
> then_if(subject, condition?, function)
>
> Or similar. :)
>
> *José Valimhttps://dashbit.co/ <https://dashbit.co/>*
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 3:27 PM Juan Manuel Azambuja <j...@mimiquate.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> After working with Elixir for some time I have found myself repeating
>> some patterns when dealing with maps.
>>
>> One pattern I see repeated constantly in different apps developed by
>> myself or others is adding values to a map conditionally or returning the
>> map unchanged. This comes in different flavors:
>>
>> [image: Screenshot 2024-12-06 at 11.13.23 AM.png]
>> or
>> [image: Screenshot 2024-12-06 at 11.14.32 AM.png]
>>
>> When this pattern gets used enough in an app, it's normal to see it
>> abstracted in a MapUtils module that updates the map conditionally if a
>> condition is met or returns the map unchanged otherwise.
>>
>> My proposal is to include Map.put_if/4 which would abstract the condition
>> check and return the map unchanged if the condition is not met:
>>
>> [image: Screenshot 2024-12-06 at 11.17.21 AM.png]
>>
>> Enhancing the API by doing this will result in less code and more
>> readable solutions.
>>
>> Thanks for reading!
>>
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