[erlang-questions] Erlang4Android

[Loïc Hoguin]

On 01/18/2013 04:25 PM, Björn Gustavsson wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Erik Reitsma <erlang@REDACTED
> <mailto:erlang@REDACTED>> wrote:
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>     On 01/15/2013 10:41 AM, Joe Armstrong wrote:
>>     Golly - I read the code - you modified error_handler.erl !!!!
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>>     So what happens is ...
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>>        I call android:fooBar(Args) - fooBar is not defined in android.erl
>>        so it's caught in error_handler and then android:rpc(fooBar,
>>     [...]) is called
>>        and this ends up as a Json call to a socket -
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>     Yes, that is what happens.
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> It might interest you to know, that in R16, you can have a handler for
> undefined functions in each module. (We needed that to implement the parse
> transformation for parameterized modules.)
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> This new feature has just been merged to the master branch:
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> https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/209a479080214ab901116d48b90e91d6c056278d

This sounds like a temporary workaround with potentially very bad uses. 
Why was it documented?

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