[erlang-questions] Comma, semicolon. Aaaaa

[Ahmed Ali]

Hi Lone,

I'll try to give you my view on the syntax. The comma (,) is like (;) in
languages like Java/C. Each method is ended with a Dot (.). If you have more
than one method with the same number parameters (called arity in Erlang),
you need to separate them with  (;).  There is no similar construct in
Java/C for this.

Similarly, you can think of if/case statements, which use (;) to separate
different if/case conditions,  (,) to separate clauses for each condition,
and (.) to indicate the end of if/case statement.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Ahmed Al-Issaei

On 9/15/07, Lone Wolf <hubaghdadi@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> Well guys, I'm struggling with Erlang syntax.
> Does Erlang has line terminators like C++ or Java?
> Consider this sinppet:
> ----------
> convert_list_to_c([{Name, {f, F}} | Rest]) ->
>     Converted_City = {Name, {c, (F -32)* 5 / 9}},
>     [Converted_City | convert_list_to_c(Rest)];
> ----------
> Why there is a comma after {Name, {c, (F -32)* 5 / 9}} ?
> Another snippet and the same question:
> ----------
> format_temps(List_of_cities) ->
>     Converted_List = convert_list_to_c(List_of_cities),
>     print_temp(Converted_List).
> ----------
> Another one:
> ----------
> foreach(Fun, [First|Rest]) ->
>     Fun(First),
>     foreach(Fun, Rest);
> ----------
> How to define blocks? using { } for example ? or by using indentation (aka
> Python) ?
> All these snippets are from Erlang docs.
> Thanks.
>
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