[erlang-questions] New module syntax and semantics?

[Ulf Wiger]

That's an example of parameterized modules, which is an experimental
and unsupported feature in Erlang.

http://www.planeterlang.org/story.php?title=The_black_art_of_Erlangs_parameterized_modules
http://www.erlang.se/workshop/2003/paper/p29-carlsson.pdf

BR,
Ulf W

2008/6/29 Tom Ayerst <tom.ayerst@REDACTED>:
> Is was looking at the mochiweb code and I saw some oddities.
>
> firstly the module statement:
> -module(mochiweb_request, [Socket, Method, RawPath, Version, Headers]).
>
> In the use of mochiweb I can see things like Req:get(method).
>
> This looks more like an object method call, is this new?  I cannot see an
> docs about it.
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> Tom Ayerst
>
> In the example Req ={mochiweb_request,#Port<0.142>,'GET',
>                                          "/",
>                                          {1,1},
>                                          {9,
>                                           {"host",
>                                            {'Host',"127.0.0.1:8888"},
>                                            {"accept",
>                                             {'Accept',
>
> "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"},
>                                             nil,
>                                             {"accept-language",
>                                              {'Accept-Language',
>                                               "en-gb,en;q=0.5"},
>                                              {"accept-encoding",
>                                               {'Accept-Encoding',
>                                                "gzip,deflate"},
>                                               {"accept-charset",
>                                                {'Accept-Charset',
>
> "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"},
>                                                nil,nil},
>                                               nil},
>                                              {"connection",
>                                               {'Connection',"keep-alive"},
>                                               {"cache-control",
>
> {'Cache-Control',"max-age=0"},
>                                                nil,nil},
>                                               nil}}},
>                                            {"user-agent",
>                                             {'User-Agent',
>                                              "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
> Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0"},
>                                             {"keep-alive",
>                                              {'Keep-Alive',"300"},
>                                              nil,nil},
>                                             nil}}}}
>
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