[erlang-questions] Fwd: What does ":gen" do in this case?

[Yves S. Garret]

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From: Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogategod@REDACTED>
Date: Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:43 PM
Subject: What does ":gen" do in this case?
To: "erlang-questions@REDACTED" <erlang-questions@REDACTED>


I'm looking at this code:

spawn_CerebralUnits(IdsNPIds, CerebralUnitType, [Id | Ids])->
  PId = CerebralUnitType:gen(self(), node()),
  ets:insert(IdsNPIds, {Id, PId}),
  ets:insert(IdsNPIds, {PId, Id}),
  spawn_CerebralUnits(IdsNPIds, CerebralUnitType, Ids);
spawn_CerebralUnits(_IdsNPIds, _CerebralUnitType, [])->
  true.

On the line where PId is bound, you have this
"CerebralUnitType:gen(self(), node()),".  CerebralUnitType is an atom
"cortex".  So
what does :gen do in this case?

Ah, just saw your response Thomas.  Yes, you're correct.
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