[erlang-questions] Code/Hot/Loading

[Sam Bobroff]

Sorry I'm a little late with my reply, but the situation is not as simple
as that (at least as of R14B02, I have not re-tested R15): funs can migrate
between versions of a module in some situations.

Here's the thread where I asked a similar question:

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058301.html

Another older thread is referenced in that one and it's also interesting.

Sam.

On 17 January 2012 04:31, Jon Watte <jwatte@REDACTED> wrote:

> 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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