[erlang-questions] conditional expressions

[Hynek Vychodil]

2008/11/15 damien morton <dmorton@REDACTED>

> 1> case [] of [] -> X = aaa; X -> ok end.
> aaa
> 2> case bbb of [] -> X = aaa; X -> ok end.
> ** exception error: no case clause matching bbb
>
> am I missing something?
>

Yes, you missed that shell binds X to aaa in previous expression ;-)

But I think, less magic will be

X = case foo() of
      [] -> bar();
      Y -> Y
  end


> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:42 AM, mats cronqvist <masse@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>>
>>   strangely, this also works;
>>
>> case foo() of
>>  [] -> X = bar();
>>  X -> ok
>> end
>>
>>  as long as X is bound in each clause, you're golden.
>>
>>  this might qualify as a gotcha.
>>
>>  mats
>>
>
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