[erlang-questions] noob namespace question

[Gianfranco Alongi]

I see your confusion - and I would as well be confused,
for the email did not follow the tracks of your shoes.

I replied to the last email in the discussion,
but did not intend to quote you or follow the fashion.

>From the previous emails in this thread,
it seemed to be implied about function names,
that they must only be in lowercase.

But, as Max Lapshin ? (I think) - reminded us all,
'UpperCaseText' is an atom as well,
thus it okay to  StareAt:'TheWall'().

G

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Richard O'Keefe <ok@REDACTED> wrote:

>
> On 13/12/2012, at 7:25 PM, Gianfranco Alongi wrote:
>
> > By implication - what I will write has been said.
> > But I will just spend a second reinforcing this and dispelling any
> misconceptions.
> >
> > They can - if you force it into an atom.
>
> I am confused by the pronoun references here.
> "They" refers to what things?
> "can" refers to what action?
> "it" refers to what thing?
>
> In the text of mine that was quoted, the claim was that
> an atom cannot be a function and it cannot be a function name
> all by itself either.
>
> This is true, and has nothing whatever to do with quotation marks.
> >
> > -module(capsFuncs).
> > -export(['Run'/1]).
> > 'Run'(this) ->
> >     that.
> >
> > 1> c(capsFuncs).
> > {ok,capsFuncs}
> > 2> capsFuncs:'Run'(this).
> > that
>
> The only thing this illustrates is that a quoted atom can be used
> as part of a function name, and as far as I could tell, nobody ever
> saidotherwise.  This example does not show an atom being a function
> or being a function name all by itself.  The only function in
> sight is the one whose name is the triple capsFuncs:'Run'/1,
> which may be abbreviated to 'Run'/1 within the capsFuncs module.
>
> IIRC, the original poster said he knew something about Lisp,
> so the fact that
>         (defun |Run| (arg) 'that)
> is legal Lisp would have prepared him to _expect_ quoted atoms
> to be usable as (parts of) function names.
>
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