[erlang-questions] Interesting style i haven't seen....

[Dave Smith]

I may be wrong, but I don't think this has anything to do with
parameterized modules, but is instead an old-school way of invoking
functions. From the reference manual:

"When applied to a number N of arguments, a tuple
{Module,FunctionName} is interpreted as a fun, referring to the
function FunctionName with arity N in the module Module. The function
must be exported. This usage is deprecated. See Function Calls for an
example."

D.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Tony Arcieri <tony@REDACTED> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Colm Dougan <colm.dougan@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> .. by virtue of the fact that Dog is a tuple with a first element of
>> "dog".  I seem to recall this is a consequence of the parametrized
>> modules feature.
>>
>
> Note that the paramaterized modules paper:
>
> http://www.erlang.se/workshop/2003/paper/p29-carlsson.pdf
>
> ...specifies the value representing a paramaterized module is opaque.  This
> is a side-effect of the implementation.
>
> That said, very interesting.
>
> --
> Tony Arcieri
> Medioh/Nagravision
>