Posted the fourth of a continuing series of articles on similarities and differences between Erlang and Elixir. This article covers variable scoping in the two languages, comparing Elixir’s caret operator with Erlang’s single assignment, and exploring a few surprises in the scoping rules.

http://daniel-azuma.com/blog/2016/05/17/family-ties-4-scoping-out-the-scene

Index of previous articles in the series: http://daniel-azuma.com/articles/family-ties/