[erlang-questions] passing a function to lists:map

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

You do not need to export the function to be able to use it in a
fun func/arity
expression.


ebngt

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 12:53 +0100, Jeroen Koops wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> use:
> 
> -export([ ta/1 ]).
> 
> and then:
> 
> atomize(List) -> lists:map(fun ta/1, List).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@REDACTED>wrote:
> 
> > ta(X) when is_list(X)    -> list_to_atom(X);
> > ta(X) when is_tuple(X)   -> tuple_to_list(X);
> > ta(X) when is_integer(X) -> X.
> >
> > % this doesn't work
> > atomize(List) -> lists:map(ta, List).
> >
> > % this does
> > atomize(List) -> lists:map(fun(X) -> ta(X) end, List).
> >
> > What's the difference? Have I just got the syntax wrong, or is there
> > some fundamental reason I need the second version?
> >
> > martin
> >
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