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[;1m erlang[0m
The Erlang BIFs and predefined types.
By convention, most Built-In Functions (BIFs) and all predefined
types are included in this module. Some of the BIFs and all of the
predefined types are viewed more or less as part of the Erlang
programming language and are auto-imported. Thus, it is not
necessary to specify the module name. For example, the calls [;;4m[0m
[;;4matom_to_list(erlang)[0m and [;;4merlang:atom_to_list(erlang)[0m are
identical.
Auto-imported BIFs are annotated with [;;4mauto-imported[0m and
predefined types are annotated with [;;4mpredefined[0m.
Some auto-imported BIFs are also allowed in guard expression. Such
BIFs are annoted with both [;;4mauto-imported[0m and [;;4mguard-bif[0m.
BIFs can fail for various reasons. All BIFs fail with reason [;;4m[0m
[;;4mbadarg[0m if they are called with arguments of an incorrect type.
The other reasons are described in the description of each
individual BIF.
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