Reflection in erlang

[Lennart Öhman]

Hi,
there are "secret" functions called module_info/0 and module_info/1
in every erlang module.

Eshell V5.2.3.3  (abort with ^G)
1> lists:module_info().
[{exports,[{append,2},
            {append,1},
            {subtract,2},
            {reverse,1},
            {nth,2},
            {nthtail,2},
            {prefix,2},
            {suffix,2},
...


2> lists:module_info(exports).
[{append,2},
  {append,1},
  {subtract,2},
  {reverse,1},
  {nth,2},
  {nthtail,2},
  {prefix,2},
  {suffix,2},
  {last,1},
...


/Lennart


Corrado Santoro wrote:
> Hi all, 
> I'm looking for an API that allows me to obtain info on a loaded module. In 
> particular I would like to obtain the list of function exported with the 
> arity. 
>  
> I looked at the documentation but I didn't found anything. 
>  
> Could anyone help me? 
>  
> Bye, 
> -Corrado 
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