[erlang-questions] behavior of funktions

[Christian S]

In your case it wont change the result since f is side-effect free
(ignoring heat dissipation in the computer). Optimizing compilers
might take advantage of this.

The semantics is to call f twice, and as you write the way to get
around it is to
save the value into a temporary.

2007/7/22, Johannes <dajo.mail@REDACTED>:
> hi, i have a question about the behavior of funktions.
> if theres a function:
> f(A,0) ->
>         1;
> f(A,B) ->
>         [f(A,B-1),f(A,B-1)].
> how often is f(A,B-1) evaluated then ? just one time, and erlang tooks
> the result everywhere where it fits, like f(A,B) -> TMP=f(A,B-1),[TMP;TMP].
> or is it evaluated every time again ??