[erlang-questions] Erlang code reuse

[Huxi Li]

Thanks for your advice. I will check mixer in more detail; it seems
interesting.

Many people talk about Exilir, but I haven't yet been convinced by Exilir
--  although I can't tell exactly why.

Regards,

Huxi
On 22 Aug 2014 22:11, "Federico Carrone" <federico.carrone@REDACTED> wrote:

> Huxi, you should check https://github.com/opscode/mixer from the Chef
> guys. I use it a lot and it works perfectly fine.
>
> In Elixir you got protocols:
> https://pminten.github.io/blog/2013/09/11/elixir-patterns-mixins/
>
> They are awesome! I recommend that you try elixir.
>
> Protocols <http://clojure.org/protocols>, if I am not wrong, come from
> Clojure land. In a way they are remotely similar to duck typing in
> Ruby/Python but better (subjective opinion).
>
> However even with mixer/mixins, protocols or duck typing I am pretty sure
> that they would not be useful for the supervisor2 scenario. In that case,
> as Anthony Ramine pointed out, the supervisor should give you some option
> to insert the new functionality.
>
> Regards,
> Federico.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Tyler Margison <kolorahl@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm not an Erlang expert, so others are more than welcome to correct me
>> on this, but I do not believe Erlang allows "code reuse" in the manner you
>> are suggesting. Erlang has behaviors, which are modules that define an
>> interface and may have additional functionality of their own (see
>> gen_server), but there is no way to inherit from a module and override
>> select functions. I feel like this isn't a common scenario, though. In all
>> of my own projects I very rarely, if ever, find myself re-writing entire
>> modules to suit my own needs.
>>
>> PS: I thnk Elixir <http://elixir-lang.org/> might be able to do this,
>> but I haven't looked at the documentation in-depth for a while and I may be
>> wrong.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Huxi Li <huxili@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hello all,
>>>
>>> I am surprised to see the way the following module is coded when
>>> studying rabbit MQ server:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/blob/master/src/supervisor2.erl
>>>
>>> It is a duplication of erlang's supervisor.erl with minor changes.
>>>
>>> So my question is :  Are there better ways of code reuse in erlang
>>> without duplication of code as found in the above example ?  Some sort of
>>> polymorphism ?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Huxi LI
>>>
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