Documenting the Language

[Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom]

>   There really does need to be a document which definetivly 
>   decribes the core langauge.  Now I know there is the 
>   "Reference Manual" but it is dated February 9, 1999 and is
>   "DRAFT (0.7)".  It's the Erlang 4.7.3 reference manual and
>   we're currently on 5.2.  

That baffled me as well.
How is the language defined? (Except as commented source code of the compiler :-)

And it looks bad, if both the standard book and the reference doc
are outdated.


> It's also only available as a 
> postscript file and I haven't had any luck text searching it.

What about searching the raw postscript in vi? 

Regards,
Marc