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

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

On 25/02/16 10:37 pm, Joe Armstrong wrote:
>
> Personally I hate reading books and articles on the net that say "do this"
> and when you do it, it does not work.

Hah!  I got my hands on a Java textbook that promised to be helpful a 
couple of
years ago, and it had on-line code examples I could download.

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM produced a flood of deprecation warnings
from the compiler.  Not impressed.