[erlang-questions] erlang sucks

[Mats Cronqvist]

Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB) wrote:
> Robert Virding skrev:
>   
>> ...
>> But the resulting 'if' would definitely be more useful.
>>     
> ...
>
> The 'if' statement is not high on my list of things that need
> improving. It's actually quite ok, except it could perhaps have
> been named differently, in order not to give people false
> expectations.

 
  just to be clear; i don't think 'if ' should be improved.
  and i realize it cannot be removed either :<

  what i proposed was that it'd be obsoleted. in practice that would 
mean that there'd
be a prominent document named "Obsolete features" or somesuch. That 
document would list
old cruft; such as
* 'if'
* the three different 'and' (*)
* split_binary()
* the old type guards (integer() vs. is_integer())
* tuple funs
etc...

  mats

(*)
(case x of x when true,false ->ok; _-> nok end.
nok
case x of x when true and false ->ok; _-> nok end.
nok
case x of x when true andalso false ->ok; _-> nok end.
nok
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