assign variable to the return of a case statement Elixir

In Elixir, can I do

foo = ""  foo = case bar do          _ -> "foo is now this value"        end  

i.e assigning whatever the return of a case statement is to a variable in Elixir? If I can is this bad practise?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65453358/assign-variable-to-the-return-of-a-case-statement-elixir December 26, 2020 at 11:08AM