[erlang-questions] lists:reverse/1 as a built-in function

James Hague james.hague@REDACTED
Tue Jan 9 19:08:48 CET 2007


On 1/8/07, Richard Carlsson <richardc@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> The set of auto-imported functions ("built-in" is a much wider concept)
> is not possible to extend without breaking backwards compatibility.

Thanks for the reply, Richard.

It occasionally bothers me that relative oddies like term_to_binary
are auto-imported, but reverse isn't.  But  in any case this has
clearly started up some interesting discussion!

James



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