Hasan's blog

Starling, Unicode strings for Erlang.

2008-03-11T15:38:31Z

http://12monkeys.co.uk/starling/

svn co http://starling.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ starling

Get the source and get hacking! I welcome any help, in the form of code, tests, documentation, suggestions, or comments.

Fun with function names in Erlang

2008-01-30T00:00:00Z

(From the department of “cool, but useless”)

This is valid Erlang code:


-module(aoeui).
-compile(export_all).

'___'() ->
    io:format("___~n").

'<<@@>>'() ->
    io:format("<<@@>>~n").

'!@#$%^&*(){}'() ->
    io:format("!@#$%^&*(){}~n").

'_абвгд_'() ->
    io:format("_абвгд_~n").

This is of course due to the fact that functions in Erlang are identified by atom and arity pairs, which means that any valid atom is a valid function name.

Sadly, the only opportunity to use these with clear conscience is the next Obfuscated Erlang Competition. :(

"A practical introduction to Erlang", at Scotruby this Thursday

2007-11-18T00:00:00Z

I’ll be giving a talk on Erlang this Thursday at the monthly Scotruby meet-up.

If you’re in Edinburgh, come along. We’re meeting at the Edinburgh Training Centre (St Mary’s Street, EH1 1SU, map here) at 19:30.