<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Jonathan Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon@axismilton.ltd.uk" target="_blank">jon@axismilton.ltd.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Personally I’d like the restriction that the names are the same to be removed altogether.<br>
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Is there a good reason for it ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well I guess if you are searching for a specific module in a folder with many .erl files, you would like to be looking for the *module_name*.erl rather than opening all the files one by one or greping the -module attribute.</div><div><br></div><div>Aggelos</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 21 Nov 2014, at 11:21, Loïc Hoguin <<a href="mailto:essen@ninenines.eu">essen@ninenines.eu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
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> Something has been bugging me for a very long time now.<br>
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> The -module line is mandatory. It also must be the same as the file name minus the extension .erl or compilation fails.<br>
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