Add documentation for string keys in Keyword's colon syntax #7210
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Following ex_doc's #821 discussion...
This is the example provided in
Keyword
docs:And because below,
elem(0)
is a string, it is not aKeyword
. So it remains a list of tuples:But the code below, which is currently not documented, is actually a valid keyword syntax, and the string key automatically gets converted to an atom:
So I thought it would be nice to document this in the docs. ❤️