Syntax in functions | Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!

Pattern Matching Now that we have the ability to store and compile our code, we can begin to write more advanced functions. Those that we have written so far were extremely simple and a bit underwhelming. We'll get to more interesting stuff. The first function we'll write will need to greet someone differently according to gender. In most languages you would need to write something similar to this

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Note: I've compared , and ; in guards to the operators andalso and orelse. They're not exactly the same, though. The former pair will catch exceptions as they happen while the latter won't. What this means is that if there is an error thrown in the first part of the guard X >= N; N >= 0, the second