elixir-lang/elixir — pull request #1607 by chameco (2013-08-15 18:25:53+00:00)
Title: Pattern-matching string converters

Fixes #1598. I'd appreciate some review; I'm new from the language, and since most of my functional programming experience comes from Common Lisp and Clojure, I'm not very familiar with idiomatic pattern-matching solutions to things.