Archive for March 6, 2011

Introduction to Erlang : Basic Types (1/2)

This entry is part 4 of 16 in the series Introduction to Erlang

Command Terminator

Erlang uses a simple dot (.) as the command terminator. Consequently every correct Erlang statement should terminate with a dot.

1> 1
1> 2.
* 2: syntax error before: 2
1> 1.
1
2> 2.
2

The Most Basic Types

I will introduce the data types of Erlang and the basic operations on them by example. Most of the material presented today will look familiar to other programming languages. The next post will present some more sophisticated data types.
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