[erlang-questions] Is this code tail recursive?

David Mercer dmercer@REDACTED
Mon Sep 20 19:33:55 CEST 2010


On September 20, 2010, Anthony Molinaro wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:25:13AM +0000, Robert Virding wrote:
> > - Importing a function from a module provides absolutely no new
> functionality. It just saves you from having to explicitly qualify the
> function call with the module name. So if foo/1 is imported from module
> bar, -import(bar,[foo/1])., then foo(...) and bar:foo(...) are exactly
> equivalent, the compiler does the conversion internally. It saves you some
> writing. Many people frown on importing and say you shouldn't do it as it
> obscures what you are actually doing, I only use for importing functions
> from some common modules like lists.
> 
> So for code change does this mean the new version of an imported module is
> called?

Yes.



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