Technical Report 2000-030

Core Erlang 1.0 language specification

Richard Carlsson, Björn Gustavsson, Erik Johansson, Thomas Lindgren, Sven-Olof Nyström, Mikael Pettersson, and Robert Virding

November 2000

Abstract:

We describe a core language for the concurrent functional language Erlang, aptly named "Core Erlang", presenting its grammar and informal static and dynamic semantics relative to Erlang. We also discuss built-in functions and other open issues, and sketch a syntax tree representation.

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