[erlang-questions] Code/Hot/Loading

[Jon Watte]

Funs are always bound to the code they are initially loaded from. Only name
look-ups are affected by code loading AFAICT.

This has been a source of exceptions in our previous development, because
the first time you load new code, F is still valid, but the second time you
load new code, the old code is purged and F is now invalid. Any call to it
will generate an exception.

We ended up wrapping our needs for lambdas in a module with state instead.
Not the most elegant, but allows us to get "dynamic lambdas." If all you
need in the fun is module:function, you can use a tuple for that instead of
a fun.

Sincerely,

jw


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On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Gokul Evuri <chandu.gokul138@REDACTED>wrote:

> so for instance
>
> f() -> 3.
> x() -> F = fun() -> f() end,
>        A = f(),
>        B = ?MODULE:f(),
>        C = F().
>
> right after F hash been defined,
>
> a new version of code for f() is defined as follows
>
> f()-> threeand loaded.
>
> What would be the value of C.
>
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