[erlang-questions] Changing the shell and module syntax and semantics

[Bengt Kleberg]

On 2007-03-08 09:30, Joe Armstrong wrote:
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> In fact these is no good reason not to allow this in modules as well ...
> 
> -module(mmm).
> 
> X = 12 + lists:sqrt(23).
> 
> foo(A) ->
>      A + X.
> 
> .... etc....
> 
> This would *greatly* increase the power of Erlang and make things
> nicely symmetric

it would also make this code crash:

-module(mmm).

X = 12 + lists:sqrt(23).

foo(A) ->
	X = A+1,
...


which would be symmetric towards the shell but rather inconvenient in a 
big module.


bengt
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