[erlang-questions] A style question

Jayson Vantuyl kagato@REDACTED
Sat Feb 13 22:39:15 CET 2010


I've always felt that "fun some_func/2" is underused.  In the case of Mnesia, it's easy enough to do:

> mnesia:transaction( fun actual_worker_fun/0 )

I also find this to be nicer for the purposes of documentation, static analysis, debugging, and readability.

On Feb 13, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Vance Shipley wrote:

> In my personal style I only use an inline fun() when it is
> short enough to fit on one line:
> 
>   case mnesia:transaction(fun() -> mnesia:all_keys(funky) end) of
>       {atomic, Keys} ->
>           ...
>       {aborted, Reason} ->
>           ...
>   end
> 
> Otherwise seperating the transaction logic itself from the
> transaction result handling is more clear.
> 
> 	-Vance
> 
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:34:52PM +1300, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
> }  My preferred style for this would be
> }  
> }  	mnesia:transaction(fun () ->
> }  	    ....
> }  	end)
> 
> -- 
> 	-Vance
> 
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