[erlang-questions] about fun vs. functions schisofrenia

[Matej Kosik]

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Friends,

What do you think about artificial discrimination between "funs" and functions in Erlang? I came
from a language (Pict) where these could be used interchangably. In Erlang, these things cannot be
used interchangably and this leads to fun vs. function schisofrenia. You have to define separate
functions that requre "funs" and a separate set of functions that require funs. This breaks the code
at every corner (or export everything but this is nonsense).

How should I call

	PrintedEntities = rpc:pmap( {?MODULE, print_entity},
                                    [AttributeNames, ExportFunctions, State], SortedEntities
                                  ),

without being forced to export the `print_entity/4' function? I would really like to keep it "private".

And, how could I perform (it must be done in parallel) a similar operation with "funs"?
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Matej Kosik
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