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<p class="MsoNormal">> Erlang's behaviour is NOT an interface!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> If you are looking for some analogy from other languages the closest one is abstract classes in C#.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This isn’t very helpful... it is the exact same response I find in the forums with no reasoning behind it. I don’t need analogies either; I understand what behaviours are “supposed” to be from the documentation and comments (perhaps this
wasn’t made clear by my post). Where I fall short is “why” are behaviours limited to such and why aren’t more people asking the same questions I am stuck on (regarding polymorphism)? My logic was: yes, this has been asked and discussed some in the past with
no real resolution that I could find... therefore, users must be content/accepting of the tools provided. I am not so naive to think I am the first to need/want such, so there must be a disconnect.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I posted my example to motivate my questioning hoping for some insight and/or comfort. As of now, I have proceeded with storing “meta refs” to my child servers that are module/reference tuples (along with some dangerous and future-maintenance-issue-causing
assumptions regarding their “interface”)... and it’s works... it just smells, and I am always eager to learn and find the right/better/best way.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Aside: a colleague came across this repo (<a href="https://github.com/eldarko/epolymorph">https://github.com/eldarko/epolymorph</a>) while digging and the readme seems to capture my use case almost exactly...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brett<o:p></o:p></p>
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