[erlang-questions] One sample program want to know how it works

[Robert Virding]

2008/5/18 Zvi <exta7@REDACTED>:

>
> what's confusing here is that, as a programmer, you expect following format
> for define preprocessor directive:
>
> -define(NAME, VALUE).
>
> Note the closing parenthesis ")" before the dot "."
>
> For strict preprocessor implementation I would expect, this sample to fail
> on sytax error. But it's not
> So, probably the real format for deine (or attributes in general) is,
> either:
>
> -define(NAME, VALUE).
>
> OR
>
> -define(NAME, VALUE .


Yes I was a bit lazy when writing epp and did not handle that error case.
:-) I suppose someone really should fix it. But it makes for good obfuscated
code.

Robert
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