[erlang-questions] What is the point of Spawn(Node, Fun) if Node has to have the same module loadable as a client node?

Alex Arnon alex.arnon@REDACTED
Tue Sep 6 07:23:50 CEST 2016


Would an Erlang AST do it?


On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@REDACTED>
wrote:


> [SNIP]
>
>

> There is of course another possibility.
> If you need to send "pieces of behaviour" to another node,
> you can define a mini-language represented as Erlang
> data structures as part of the protocol, and send something
> over that is a *scrutable* data structure in which general
> Bad Things simply aren't expressible, and that can be
> interpreted or compiled to Erlang by the receiver as it
> chooses.  "Stuff we can run" doesn't have to be Erlang
> any more than it has to be ARM assembly code.
>
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