[erlang-patches] EEP37: Funs with names

[Anthony Ramine]

Will someone ever review this, pretty please with sugar on top?

It was postponed for R16A; could you tell me if it can be included in R17?

Regards,

-- 
Anthony Ramine

Le 5 févr. 2013 à 13:51, Anthony Ramine a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> Rebased against latest master—which I gather is now for R17. Please refetch.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Ramine
> 
> Le 21 nov. 2012 à 15:36, Anthony Ramine a écrit :
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I had forgotten to update the abstract format documentation, named_fun is
>> now mentioned in absform.xml in the doc commit.
>> 
>> Please refetch,
>> 
>> -- 
>> Anthony Ramine
>> 
>> Le 15 nov. 2012 à 15:22, Henrik Nord a écrit :
>> 
>>> I will add this patch to 'master-pu'.
>>> 
>>> Thank you for your contribution!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2012-11-14 17:42, Anthony Ramine wrote:
>>>> This patch implements EEP37: Funs with names
>>>> 
>>>> This adds optional names to fun expressions. A named fun expression
>>>> is parsed as a tuple `{named_fun,Loc,Name,Clauses}` in erl_parse.
>>>> 
>>>> If a fun expression has a name, it must be present and be the same in
>>>> every of its clauses. The function name shadows the environment of the
>>>> expression shadowing the environment and it is shadowed by the
>>>> environment of the clauses' arguments. An unused function name triggers
>>>> a warning unless it is prefixed by _, just as every variable.
>>>> Variable _ is allowed as a function name.
>>>> 
>>>> It is not an error to put a named function in a record field default
>>>> value.
>>>> 
>>>> When transforming to Core Erlang, the named fun Fun is changed into
>>>> the following expression:
>>>> 
>>>>   letrec 'Fun'/Arity =
>>>>              fun (Args) ->
>>>>                      let <Fun> = 'Fun'/Arity
>>>>                      in Case
>>>>   in 'Fun'/Arity
>>>> 
>>>> where Args is the list of arguments of 'Fun'/Arity and Case the
>>>> Core Erlang expression corresponding to the clauses of Fun.
>>>> 
>>>> This transformation allows us to entirely skip any k_var to k_local
>>>> transformation in the fun's clauses bodies.
>>>> 
>>>> 	https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:master...eep37
>>>> 	https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:master...eep37.patch
>>>> 
>>>> 	git fetch https://github.com/nox/otp eep37
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> /Henrik Nord Erlang/OTP
>>> 
>> 
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