[erlang-questions] Erlang introspection

[Pablo Polvorin]

Hi,
a simple example should be enough to get you started:

Eshell V5.6.4  (abort with ^G)
1> M = string.
string
2> F = to_lower.
to_lower
3> R1 = apply(M,F,["HelLo"]).
"hello"
4> R2 = M:F("HelLo").
"hello"
5>



2008/11/25 Matthew Williams <Matthew_Williams@REDACTED>:
> I'm trying to find information about erlangs support for introspection. I've
> got a program that receives and function name and arguments through a socket
> and I'd like to use this information to make a function call on the module
> that receives it. Can anyone suggest a good starting point for finding out
> how to do this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
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