From acbca8379bdde12612e27f3313a5c73f4db25381 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:06:01 +0100
Subject: EEP 37: Funs with names

This adds optional names to fun expressions. A named fun expression
is parsed as a tuple `{named_fun,Loc,Name,Clauses}` in erl_parse.

If a fun expression has a name, it must be present and be the same in
every of its clauses. The function name shadows the environment of the
expression shadowing the environment and it is shadowed by the
environment of the clauses' arguments. An unused function name triggers
a warning unless it is prefixed by _, just as every variable.
Variable _ is allowed as a function name.

It is not an error to put a named function in a record field default
value.

When transforming to Core Erlang, the named fun Fun is changed into
the following expression:

    letrec 'Fun'/Arity =
               fun (Args) ->
                       let <Fun> = 'Fun'/Arity
                       in Case
    in 'Fun'/Arity

where Args is the list of arguments of 'Fun'/Arity and Case the
Core Erlang expression corresponding to the clauses of Fun.

This transformation allows us to entirely skip any k_var to k_local
transformation in the fun's clauses bodies.
---
 lib/stdlib/src/erl_parse.yrl | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/stdlib/src/erl_parse.yrl')

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/erl_parse.yrl b/lib/stdlib/src/erl_parse.yrl
index 7145b0858f..59a05a48ee 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/src/erl_parse.yrl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/src/erl_parse.yrl
@@ -406,6 +406,9 @@ fun_clause -> argument_list clause_guard clause_body :
 	{Args,Pos} = '$1',
 	{clause,Pos,'fun',Args,'$2','$3'}.
 
+fun_clause -> var argument_list clause_guard clause_body :
+	{clause,element(2, '$1'),element(3, '$1'),element(1, '$2'),'$3','$4'}.
+
 try_expr -> 'try' exprs 'of' cr_clauses try_catch :
 	build_try(?line('$1'),'$2','$4','$5').
 try_expr -> 'try' exprs try_catch :
@@ -799,8 +802,15 @@ build_rule(Cs) ->
 %% build_fun(Line, [Clause]) -> {'fun',Line,{clauses,[Clause]}}.
 
 build_fun(Line, Cs) ->
+    Name = element(3, hd(Cs)),
     Arity = length(element(4, hd(Cs))),
-    {'fun',Line,{clauses,check_clauses(Cs, 'fun', Arity)}}.
+    CheckedCs = check_clauses(Cs, Name, Arity),
+    case Name of
+        'fun' ->
+            {'fun',Line,{clauses,CheckedCs}};
+        Name ->
+            {named_fun,Line,Name,CheckedCs}
+    end.
 
 check_clauses(Cs, Name, Arity) ->
      mapl(fun ({clause,L,N,As,G,B}) when N =:= Name, length(As) =:= Arity ->
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