The inverse of a function...

[Joe Armstrong]

Is the inverse of:

f() ->
   receive
      X ->
         ...
	 f()
   end

something like:

g() ->
   .. ! X,
   g()

:-)

/Joe

	



On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Thomas Arts wrote:

> No, this is not possible without interpreting either the
> source or the binary.
> 
> If you know more about your function f, you might be
> able to compute the inverse from the answer, but
> since you have not sepcified that, I guess you don't
> have this information.
> 
> /Thomas
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Corrado Santoro" <csanto@REDACTED>
> To: <Erlang-questions@REDACTED>
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 5:06 PM
> Subject: The inverse of a function...
> 
> 
> > Hi Erlang gurus,
> > I have a function like this:
> > 
> > f(caesar) -> ...;
> > f(caius) -> ....;
> > f(giulius) -> ....
> > 
> > I would like to have a function that, given the name 'f', returns the
> > list [caesar, caius, giulius] (or similar).
> > Is it possibile to do this (obviously without re-interpreting the source
> > file)?
> > 
> > Thanx,
> > 
> > -Corrado
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