Differences between modules and library modules.

[Ulf Wiger]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Enrique Marcote Peña wrote:

>What are the differences between a module and a "library
>module"?

I would guess that a library module is one that does not
describe the control a process. lists.erl would be a typical
library module. I don't know that there is a formal division
between library and non-library module (what would you call
gen_server?)


>And what about internal exports and external
>exports, are they different for the compiler indeed?

This is mainly a documentation convention. The compiler
doesn't care, but as we have to export functions like
handle_call/3, handle_cast/2, etc, we use a convention to
indicate that these functions are not part of the API, and
should not be called directly. They are exported for
internal use, if you will.


/Uffe
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