[erlang-questions] Strange Binary behavior

[Wenqiang Song]

Thanks. <<"abc">> is just a syntactic sugar. I missed it.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:37 PM, jm <jeffm@REDACTED> wrote:

>
> On 3/08/11 2:28 PM, Andy W. Song wrote:
>
>> As below:
>>
>>  Seems to be expecting a type specifier. try
>
> A = "abc",
> B = list_to_binary(A),
> <<B/binary, "cde">>.
>
>
> The manual states that <<"abc">> is short hand for <<$a, $b, $c>> which
> suggests  there is an exception when the list is in place.
>
> see http://www.erlang.org/doc/**reference_manual/expressions.**
> html#id77409<http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/expressions.html#id77409>
>
> Jeff.
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