[erlang-questions] c-node and arbitrary erlang term

[Roberto Ostinelli]

On 03/ago/09, at 22:26, Per Hedeland wrote:
>
> See the example just below in the doc - the argument corresponding  
> to ~w
> should be an ETERM* - erl_interface does not include a full-blown  
> Erlang
> parser.:-)

then may i suggest the documentation to explicitly state that, instead  
of "Arbitrary Erlang term" which i found confusing and believed  
erl_interface *did* have a parser :)

>
>> i could of course parse the string and re-build an erlang term from
>> the incomed string, however this is obviously something i want to
>> avoid. what am i missing?
>
> Sending it as a string to the Erlang node and parsing it there?

yes, that was what i was trying to avoid. but it will be the way,  
obviously.

thank you,

r.