[erlang-questions] Does Erlang Treat Everything Function?

[黃耀賢 (Yau-Hsien Huang)]

Thank you, Mazen.

Part of the functional programming concept of mine is from Haskell and
some readings more general, so when I heard that Erlang is functional
Haskell and other things popped out on my brain.

YHH



2010/5/18 Mazen Harake <mazen.harake@REDACTED>

> No this is not true.
>
> See here for functions:
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/functions.html
> See here for higher order functions:
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/data_types.html
>
> The rest are just data types.
>
> A Process is an instance of execution inside a given function.
>
> Hope this clears it up a little.
>
> Good luck,
>
> /Mazen
>
>
> On 17/05/2010 19:51, 黃耀賢 (Yau-Hsien Huang) wrote:
>
>> Hi, Erlang-lovers! I'm writing Erlang tutorials in my local
>> language, Chinese. I felt in thinking about a word
>> "Everything is functions."
>> Could I say that Erlang realizes the word too?
>> That is, to say even if a term is number, it's also a function:
>> for example, 0 is a function 0/0. Is it right?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> YHH.
>>
>>
>>
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