[erlang-questions] DRY principle and the syntax inconsistency in fun vs. vanilla functions

[Michael Turner]

"I don't currently wish for a different syntax ..."

I'm sorry if you got the impression that you'd have to change, under what's
proposed here. You wouldn't. It is (until I'm informed otherwise) backward
compatible.

-michael turner


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Des Small <small@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 May 2011, Daniel Goertzen wrote:
>
>  I think this is a key issue here: multi-clause funs just don't happen all
>> that often.
>>
>
> They happen to me all the time.  Every time I write a recursive function, I
> first write the clause for the base case, then a clause (or clauses) for the
> others.
>
> I don't currently wish for a different syntax, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Des
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