erlang:hibernate/1 with funs?

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

You call hibernate/3 like this to give it a fun:

  hibernate(erlang, apply, [F, []]).

We'll probably add an hibernate/1 function in R10B implemented
like this in erlang.erl.

The only disadvantage of using funs is if you do hot code replacement;
OTP has no built-in support for replacing code referenced by a fun.

/Bjorn

Peter-Henry Mander <erlang@REDACTED> writes:

> Hi gurus,
> 
> After being informed of erlang:hibernate/3, I wonder if there's a
> erlang:hibernate/1, similar in style to erlang:spawn_link/1 which takes
> a fun argument? I prefer using funs which helps avoid exporting what I
> consider to be internal module functions when spawning.
> 
> Is there a drawback writing code with spawn_link/1?
> 
> Pete.
> 
> -- 
> "The Tao of Programming
>  flows far away 
>  and returns 
>  on the wind of morning."
> 

-- 
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB