Almost exactly two years ago, I posted part of what follows at the Inakos blog. That blog is now gone and Erlang Solutions will republish most of its articles soon. But this one in particular, I wanted to have it on my own blog.

Reading ErlangExplained I noticed something that made me question my understanding of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and also made me think about the way we choose our function clauses.

found by Fede Bergero

Let’s kick off 2018 with a super simple Erlang oddity that can be summarized in a tweet from Fede Bergero: