<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Thank you for the clarification, Joe. <br />happy coding,<br />peter<br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Joe Armstrong" <erlang@gmail.com></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"Peter J Etheridge" <petergi@iinet.net.au><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div>"Erlang" <erlang-questions@erlang.org><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Sat, 16 Feb 2019 13:15:13 +0100<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [erlang-questions] meaning of Mod ?<br /><br /><br />
Mod is an atom containing the name of a module.<br /><br />
It gets used twice in server3.erl in the lines<br /><br />
Mod:init()<br />
and<br />
Mod:handle(Request, OldState)<br /><br />
Have fun<br /><br />
/Joe<br /><br /><br />
On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 6:00 AM Peter J Etheridge <petergi@iinet.net.au> wrote:<br />
><br />
> Dear Erlangers,<br />
> In module server1 at the top of Joe's book on page 363 is;<br />
><br />
> start(Name, Mod) -><br />
><br />
> In this context, what is the meaning of 'Mod' ?<br />
><br />
> Thank you in advance,<br />
> peter<br />
><br />
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