[m-dev.] Help required with Erlang: Address review comments

Paul Bone paul at bone.id.au
Wed Sep 7 16:24:55 AEST 2016


On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 04:11:11PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Paul Bone wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 03:47:10PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> >>>>Isn't it just:
> >>>>
> >>>>  Result = {ok};
> >>>>
> >>>>etc?  (That is at least, what the reference manual section on Erlang
> >>>>data passing conventions suggests that it is.)
> >>>
> >>>Doh! that was it.
> >>
> >>I'll adjust the reference manual to it a litle more obvious.
> >
> >To be fair, it's probably already the kind of thing that would be obvious to
> >someone who actually knows Erlang.
> 
> Maybe, although it's really a question of how Mercury values map down to
> Erlang values.  In any case, there's no harm in adding a note saying
> that pragma foreign_export_enum doesn't need to exist for Erlang and
> pointing the reader to the section on Erlang data passing conventions
> (which is what I am intending to do).

Agreed.  Thanks.


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