[erlang-questions] learning Erlang: factoring primes

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

ok <ok@REDACTED> writes:

> In fact I just made this "mistake" in the improved factorising code I
> posted.  My excuse is that Erlang, which came *after* Prolog and which
> uses Prolog-based syntax, gets =:= and == completely back-to-front from
> the way Prolog has them.  In Prolog, == means "exact identity" and
> =:= means "numerically equal after evaluation".  I cannot imagine why
> Erlang swapped them.  I keep on tripping up over this.

I think that the reason is that floats was not originally in the Erlang
language, but was added later.

/Björn
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB