[erlang-questions] Why do we need modules at all?

[Tim Watson]

>
> Personally, I think a step in the right direction would be to preserve
> type signatures at runtime - something that has been discussed
> elsewhere on this list not that long ago IIRC.
>

Sorry - that wasn't what I meant to say. Rather, I think that it would
be good to preserve type specifications in the beam code for a
compiled module, which doesn't happen at present.