[erlang-questions] question about Variable:fun()

[Andy W. Song]

In my case the variable is a record like V = {rec, field1, field2} where rec
is indeed a module name with fun() defined in it. So it seems that calling
to this record will in turn call the first element?

Thanks
Andy


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Jack Moffitt <jack@REDACTED> wrote:

> > New to Erlang. I saw some program with statement such as V:fun() which I
> > can't find from Joe's Erlang book. I know module:fun() is calling a
> function
> > defined in a module. But do this to a variable is confusing. Does that
> > variable define a function, and how?
>
> It is probably bound to an atom, like in this example:
>
> X = dict,
> D = X:new().
>
> jack.
>



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