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Jan Henry Nystrom
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:26 pm Reply with quote
User Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 28 Location: Uppsala, Sweden
Dmitriy Kargapolov wrote:
> Is it a bug or some magic feature in erlang shell when using atom query
> with no quotes?
>
> Eshell V5.5.4 (abort with ^G)
> 1> {query, "lalala"}.
> ** 1: syntax error before: ',' **
> 1> {'query', "lalala"}.
> {'query',"lalala"}
> 2>
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Hi Dmitriy,
It is a (mis)feature, query is a keyword that is used by the
Mnesia query language Mnmosyne. It bit me quite a few times
when it had been introduced Smile.

/Cheers Henry


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