[erlang-questions] atoms with newlines

PAILLEAU Eric eric.pailleau@REDACTED
Thu Feb 27 14:44:02 CET 2014


1> "aaaa"
1> "bbbb"
1> .
"aaaabbbb"

consecutive strings are concatenated by parser, without ++ operator, while

2> 'aaaa'
2> 'bbbb'
2> .
* 2: syntax error before: bbbb

atoms are not.

Maybe not very homogeneous...

By the way, I do not really see the need to include \n in atoms...

Regards





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