Introducing Erlang, 2nd Edition

Index

Symbols

• % (percent sign), Documenting Code
• | (vertical bar), Splitting Lists into Heads and Tails

A

• absolute value, Guards
• accumulator, Counting Up, Folding Lists
• after clause, Catching Runtime Errors as They Happen
• analysis
  • data types for, Data Types for Documentation and Analysis
  • of code, Testing, Analyzing, and Refactoring
• and operator, Atomic Booleans
• andalso operator, Atomic Booleans
• application(s)
  • documenting, Documenting Your Application-Documenting Your Application
  • packaging with OTP, Packaging an Application-Packaging an Application
  • templates, OTP Templates
• arguments, passing functions as, Simple Higher-Order Functions
  • (see also higher-order functions)
• asynchronous communications, Creating Services with gen_server
• atoms, Atoms-Atomic Booleans
  • basics, Atoms
  • pattern matching with, Pattern Matching with Atoms
  • reserved words and, Reserved Words
  • return value, Reserved Words
  • with Boolean properties, Atomic Booleans

B

• bags, Storing Records in Erlang Term Storage
• base 36, Numbers in Erlang
• BEAM file, Defining Modules
• behaviors, OTP, The Origins of OTP
  • (see also gen_server, supervisor (OTP))
• binary data, Processing Binary Data
• Booleans
  • atoms and, Atomic Booleans
  • operators, Operators
• bound variables
  • clearing in shell, Clearing Bound Variables in the Shell
  • scope, Functions and Variable Scope
  • seeing in shell, Seeing Your Bound Variables

C

• calculator
  • calling functions for, Calling Functions
  • using shell as, Doing Something-Numbers in Erlang
• case construct, Evaluating Cases-Evaluating Cases, Variable Assignment in case and ...