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When Specifications Are Used?

Explore the purpose and benefits of type specifications in Elixir. Understand how type specs aid code documentation, enable static analysis, and improve code clarity, building on Erlang practices and tools.

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When we looked at @callback in the Behaviours lesson, we saw that we defined callbacks in terms of their parameter types and return values. For example, we might write the following:

@callback parse(uri_info :: URI.Info.t) :: URI.Info.t
@callback default_port() :: integer

The terms URI.Info.t and integer ...