[erlang-questions] Order of evaluation of guards

[Ulf Wiger]

> On 06 Jan 2015, at 11:33, Imants Cekusins <imantc@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> Are guards - the right place for complicated logic?
> 
> Why not move such logic inside a function and use "if”?

In that particular example, it’s an API function, and the point of putting the checks in a guard sequence is that the function should fail if called with invalid arguments.

BR,
Ulf W

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