[Elixir] Implement new Concept Exercise: dynamic-dispatch

[angelikatyborska]

Getting started

Please please please read the docs before starting. Posting PRs without reading these docs will be a lot more frustrating for you during the review cycle, and exhaust Exercism's maintainers' time. So, before diving into the implementation, please read up on the following documents:

• The features of v3.
• Rationale for v3.
• What are concept exercise and how they are structured?

Please also watch the following video:

• The Anatomy of a Concept Exercise.

Goal

The goal of this exercise is to replace rpn-calculator-output as the exercise that teaches dynamic dispatch (https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/typespecs-and-behaviours.html#dynamic-dispatch). rpn-calculator-output should be modified to depend on dynamic-dispatch instead of teaching it. Make sure to reuse part of that exercise's introduction.

Learning objectives

• Know that you module names are just atoms
• Know that you can call a function on a module even if its stored in a variable
• apply?

Out of scope

?

Concepts

• dynamic-dispatch

Prerequisites

Depends on the story.

Resources to refer to

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/typespecs-and-behaviours.html#dynamic-dispatch

Story

Look through existing stories (/reference/stories/) to find inspiration or an existing story that can work for this exercise, or come up with a totally original idea.

Implementing

Since dynamic dispatch depends on the existence of a few modules with the same function, we might want to provide that in the boilerplate instead of having the student implement those too.

Help

If you have any questions while implementing the exercise, please post the questions as comments in this issue.

[angelikatyborska]

Does apply (https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.html#apply/3) qualify as dynamic dispatch?

[tejasbubane]

Does apply (https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.html#apply/3) qualify as dynamic dispatch?

I think it does. If needed we can mention the fact that apply cannot be invoked with macros.

[angelikatyborska]

Migrated to the Elixir track repo: exercism/elixir#558