[erlang-questions] Parameterized module initialization

[Loïc Hoguin]

On 06/27/2012 09:25 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
>
>     On 06/27/2012 02:40 AM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
>
>
>         On 27/06/2012, at 5:33 AM, Andrew Berman wrote:
>
>             I'd also like to know why there are "hidden" features of
>             Erlang in the first place.
>
>
>
>         Because it isn't dead.  New ideas get tried, and sane designers
>         don't take it
>         for granted that their precious new idea is going to be right
>         first time.
>         So initial implementations get short-cuts so that people can get
>         some
>         experience with a new feature before designing and documenting
>         the Real Thing.
>
>         Strictly speaking, in this case it isn't the *feature*
>         (parameterised modules)
>         that is hidden but the *implementation* of that feature.
>
>
>     Sure, but these kind of things are better kept in an experimental
>     branch, not in the real thing where popular projects start using
>     them and people deploy them in production.
>
>
> To be fair, all of these features were introduced before Erlang had
> public version control.

I see, makes more sense. ;)

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Loïc Hoguin
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