How to do table lookups?

Vance Shipley vances@REDACTED
Wed Mar 3 20:26:51 CET 2004


What the heck is this?  Binaries must be a number of bits
divisable by 8 however the example Edmund gave doesn't give
an immediate error but instead returns siomething which 
actually isn't a binary!

	-Vance


Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.3 [source] [threads:0]

Eshell V5.3  (abort with ^G)
1> <<A:1, Rest/binary>> = <<255>>.
<<255>>
2> A.
1
3> is_binary(Rest).
false
4> Rest.
{[1,1,1,1,1,1,1],
 7,
 <<>>}




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