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

[Richard O'Keefe]

On 19/05/2011, at 4:17 AM, Daniel Goertzen wrote:
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> I think this is a key issue here: multi-clause funs just don't happen all that often.  It was very late in my Erlang learning experience that I found the need for multi-clause funs, and I easily found the documentation at the time.

In fact the very first thing after the heading "7.17 Fun Expressions"
is a sketch of a fun with multiple clauses.

That's not what I call hard to find!