[erlang-questions] Why we need a -module() attribute?

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On 2016年2月19日 金曜日 13:39:44 Benoit Chesneau wrote:
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> > On 19 Feb 2016, at 12:32, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:
> > 
> > I've mentioned that at the beginning of the thread. We're going circles now. :-)
> > 
> > I really don't think getting rid of the mandatory -module attribute is such a hard problem to solve...
> 
> 
> for myself I am now wondering why we dont have a `-module` block and then ignoring the filename completely.
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>     -module(some).
>     -endmodule.
> 
> - benoit

This is a much more interesting idea, imo.

The reason I had referred to the filename == modname thing as a bandaid
is because it appears to be the way the code loader was kludged into finding
code -- because that's a workable and expedient solution, and writing an
actual resource resolver is a lot heavier (but more correct) solution.

-Craig