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| author | Julien Cretel <j.cretel@umail.ucc.ie> | 2015-05-20 08:45:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Julien Cretel <j.cretel@umail.ucc.ie> | 2015-05-28 09:16:12 +0200 |
| commit | fbfd64b3675fb0e0d9981378b0b6861c61945fcb (patch) | |
| tree | 13f839312c735ed166437115a080a7e36059e8c8 /erlang.html.markdown | |
| parent | b33799a8d52b77de45505ca533f0533b39bbc1d6 (diff) | |
[erlang/en] Fix #970
Diffstat (limited to 'erlang.html.markdown')
| -rw-r--r-- | erlang.html.markdown | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/erlang.html.markdown b/erlang.html.markdown index 322e437d..a897755e 100644 --- a/erlang.html.markdown +++ b/erlang.html.markdown @@ -167,8 +167,12 @@ is_dog(A) -> false. % A guard sequence is either a single guard or a series of guards, separated % by semicolons (`;`). The guard sequence `G1; G2; ...; Gn` is true if at % least one of the guards `G1`, `G2`, ..., `Gn` evaluates to `true`. -is_pet(A) when is_dog(A); is_cat(A) -> true; -is_pet(A) -> false. +is_pet(A) when is_atom(A), (A =:= dog) or (A =:= cat) -> true; +is_pet(A) -> false. + +% Warning: not all valid Erlang expressions can be used as guard expressions; +% in particular, our `is_cat` and `is_dog` functions cannot be used within the +% guard sequence in `is_pet`'s definition. % Records provide a method for associating a name with a particular element in a % tuple. |