<blockquote><br><br>On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Michael Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com">michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote<br>"I didn't ask that question until I *stumbled* on the extended syntax for funs; I didn't know about it before. The current documentation makes it hard to find."</blockquote>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I think this is a key issue here: multi-clause funs just don't happen all that often. It was very late in my Erlang learning experience that I found the need for multi-clause funs, and I easily found the documentation at the time. I did notice the syntax inconsistency, but didn't care. Anyway, it is often a good idea to break funs out into full functions to reduce nesting and facilitate tracing. Lots of funs make programs hard to debug.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dan.</div><div> </div></div><br>