[erlang-questions] Where is the syntax error.

[Hugo Mills]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 06:05:13PM +0200, Roelof Wobben wrote:
> Op 24-9-2015 om 17:01 schreef Garry Hodgson:
> >On 09/24/2015 08:54 AM, zxq9 wrote:
> >>Debugging all day makes me bad at find-it-yourself hints... -Craig _
> >
> >I like to split my time between putting bugs in and taking them out.
> >
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> One thing I do not see.
> 
> If I want to run this with a function with a argument.
> 
> -module(time).
> 
> -export([elapsed_time/1]).
> 
> elapsed_time(F) ->
>     Begintime = erlang:monotonic_time(),
>     F(),
>     Endtime = erlang:monotonic_time(),
>     Time = erlang:convert_time_unit(Endtime - Begintime,native ,
> micro_seconds),
>     io:format("This took ~w microseconds", [Time]).
> 
> This is the wrong way to do this :
> 
> time:elapsed_time((Answer = fun(x) -> x + 2 end )2).
> 
> Can I solve this by chancing the function to this elapsed_time(F,
> arg)  and then do F(arg) ?

   Yes, exactly. Although you probably want to use Arg (variable), not
arg (atom) :)

   Hugo.

> Roelof
> 
> time:elapsed_time((Answer = fun(x) -> x + 2 end )2).
> 
> time:elapsed_time((Answer = fun(x) -> x + 2 end )2).
> 
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