A collection of functions aimed at making file:script() files and escripts more readable
The idea is to provide a set of useful functions with more concise names than their original OTP counterparts, but also - and more importantly - to consistently use the semantics that the functions either return the value you care about, or fail.
The let-it-fail semantics makes it easier to write concise expressions free of unpacking constructs (which are particularly annoying in file:script() files), but also tends to give better error information.
To be really effective, these modules should be part of OTP. As a temporary
measure, I've put the following in my .erlang file:
case erlang:system_info(compat_rel) of
15 ->
code:add_patha("/Users/uwiger/erl_patch/r15");
_ ->
ok
end....then copy .beam files compiled with the right OTP into the respective directories (currently only one).