A use case for match?/2 in Elixir

Sometimes I come across code where an map (or tuple) is being tested against a pattern to return a boolean result; like this:

An example of pattern matching with a case statement to return a boolean result

That works fine, but can be simplified by using the Kernel.match?/2 function:

An example of pattern matching with Kernel.match?/2 to return a boolean result

Like when using other (more famous)Kernel functions such as ==/2, to_string/1, and send/2, the "Kernel" prefix can be omitted leaving us with a clean one-line statement.

Here is a silly “real-world” example which shows that you can also use guard clauses in your match expression:

An example with a guard clause

Lastly, if you are just testing for one (or maybe two) conditions in a map, keep things simple and stick with a simple Map.get/3 :

An example of keeping things simple and not using pattern matching