exercism/elixir/chessboard/HINTS.md

Hints

General

• Read the official documentation for ranges.

1. Define the rank range

• There is a special operator for creating ranges.

2. Define the file range

• There is a special operator for creating ranges.
• There is a special syntax to write a character code point without explicitly knowing its value.

3. Transform the rank range into a list of ranks

• Ranges implement the Enumerable protocol.
• There is a built-in function to change an enumerable data structure to a list.

4. Transform the file range into a list of files

• Ranges implement the Enumerable protocol.
• There is a built-in function to change an enumerable data structure to a list while modifying its elements.
• The bitstring special form can be used to turn a code point into a string.