[erlang-questions] Intel Quad CPUs

[Damien Morton]

Ok, makes more sense to me now. Thanks.
> Damien Morton wrote:
>   
>> Allow me to apologise in advance for my ignorance, but why do edoc type 
>> specifications look like function calls?
>>     
>
> The notation actually goes back to some early work on types in Erlang
> by Phil Wadler and Simon Marlow ("A practical subtyping system for
> Erlang", ICFP '97) - their ideas didn't fly, because they would cause
> a lot of existing code (already in '97) to be simply rejected by the
> compiler, and that just wasn't realistic. But the notation lives on,
> and has been used both in edoc and in every other work on typing in
> Erlang that I know of.
>
> Apart from separating atoms from types, note that it also easily
> extends to parameterized types, such as ordset(integer()), or
> dict(atom(), string()), so that it looks like function calls
> is quite natural when you think about it.
>
>      /Richard
>
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