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  Some other cool features of Elixir:
    ...
    * List comprehensions

I'd just like to point out that Erlang has list comprehensions as well.

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Shh! I know, the list just looked dumb with only two items.

Feeling a little Rick Perry this morning? :-)

Polymorphic records are worth a mention.

Not only list comprehensions, but database comprehensions as well.

Are you referring to Erlang or Elixir? Erlang has QLC (Query List Comprehensions) which work like that for Mnesia, for instance. I couldn't find information on this in the Elixir docs but I probably didn't know where to look.

Yes, I was referring to Erlang's QLC module.

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