visibility of a function in a module

[Joakim G.]

Richard Carlsson wrote:

>It is not available. We made a "proof of concept" implementation,
>which needs more work, but this is probably going to be a future
>feature of Erlang.
>

Hmm. Is this really what Erlang misses most of all? I can think of a least
25 (or was it 250) things which should be added/updated/fixed before going
for this one.

An unofficial top-ten (top-hundred) list of wanted/fixable language features
would actually be interesting to have around. We could even make it pollable
by people on this list. It could be good input to the OTP team.

I suppose that "Parameterised modules" wouldn't even be on a top-250 list.
My list that is.

I will say no more.

/Jocke

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>	/Richard
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>On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, HP Wei wrote:
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>>>Richard Carlsson made something like this (called Parameterised modules)
>>>
>>>  M = load (test(Base)),
>>>  M:do()
>>>
>>>  This can be implemented by some relatively simple code transformations.
>>>
>>  I guess this is not an 'official feature' of erlang yet. (?)
>>  And I could not find it in User Contribution.
>>  Where do I find an implementation of this Parameterised module ?
>>
>>  --HP
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>Richard Carlsson (richardc@REDACTED)   (This space intentionally left blank.)
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> "Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it."
>   -- Paul Graham
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