Why I Program in Erlang

Re:Why I Program in Erlang by jlouis on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @09:18AM (#4717223)

This isn't entirely true, see file:pread/2 for how to do it with a file. We lack a binary:pread/2 though :)

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Re:Why I Program in Erlang by nivertech on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @10:33AM (#4717476)

thanks for pointing it out, looks like it will not work with sockets though.

Also spec says that it will return list of either strings or binaries, not exactly iolist.

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Re:Why I Program in Erlang by masklinn on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @12:49PM (#4718191)

> Also spec says that it will return list of either strings or binaries, not exactly iolist.

It's a proper subset of iolists, since it reads from flat data (a file) there isn't much sense in its adding arbitrary amounts of nesting to it.

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