<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=gb2312"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I believe the ‘Mod’ means the real server(module) the program trying to start.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can see a module name_server(.erl) on this page.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And the practice runs with:</div><div class="">1> server1:start(name_server, name_server).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards,</div><div class="">Yao Bao</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">在 2019年2月16日，13:00，Peter J Etheridge <<a href="mailto:petergi@iinet.net.au" class="">petergi@iinet.net.au</a>> 写道：</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" class="">Dear Erlangers,<br class=""><div class="">In module server1 at the top of Joe's book on page 363 is;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">start(Name, Mod) -></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In this context, what is the meaning of 'Mod' ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you in advance,</div><div class="">peter<br class=""></div><br class=""></div>
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