AW: Hello (Erlang) World!

[Richard Carlsson]

Thomas.Herchenroeder@REDACTED wrote:

>  >   http://www.erlang.se/publications/packages.html
>  >   http://www.it.uu.se/research/reports/2000-001
> 
> Now this is interesting! I looked through the Erlang book, the "Erlang 
> Extensions since 4.4" and the most current "Erlang Reference Manual 
> version 5.3" - no mentioning of packages. Is this something like a 
> (nearly) "undocumented feature"?

"Nearly undocumented" is pretty much correct. It is only announced
in the "Release Highlights" section of the R9 documentation.

Note that the tech report from 2000 was just the first draft of
what the package system could look like. It does not describe the
implementation. The first link above is the one to use for reference.

	/Richard