[erlang-questions] Learning from the Manual

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

On 20/09/16 10:18 PM, Matthias Lang wrote:
>    http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content
>
> I took a look at his "datatype" section to see how he dealt with the
> "there aren't actually any strings" problem. And it turns out there is
> no string section!  Perfect.

The *paper* version has "strings" in the index, with
  - as binaries
  - a lists
  - to a number
as subtopics.

There's a great Open Source information retrieval engine
that can be used to power documentation searches.
It's called ATIRE, it has virtues too numerous to list here,
and it's free at http://atire.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
(The documentation could be better.  You get what you pay for.)