Proposal: Add Agent.get/1, where Agent.get(agent) is equivalent to Agent.get(agent, fn x -> x end)

[Pierre Le Gall]

Hello,

Writing `Agent.get(agent, fn x -> x end)` or even shorter
`Agent.get(agent, &(&1))` is kind of verbose for this non-specific
behavior.

Maybe the `fun` argument of `Agent.get/2` could be set to `fn x -> x
end` by default making `Agent.get/1` available?

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Pierre

[José Valim]

Getting the whole agent state is often a bad idea, so we want to force you to think if you really need the whole state or part of it. Depending on the data, you can have a drastic difference between:

    Agent.get(pid).some_field

and:

    Agent.get(pid, & &1.some_field)

So in the cases you do want it all, being explicit about it doesn't hurt.

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[Pierre Le Gall]

I see the point :)

Thank you for the answer !