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 erlang
- By convention, most Built-In Functions (BIFs) are included in this
- module. Some of the BIFs 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 
+ 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 
atom_to_list(erlang) and erlang:atom_to_list(erlang) are
identical.
Auto-imported BIFs are listed without module prefix. BIFs listed
with module prefix are not auto-imported.
+ Predefined types are listed in the Predefined datatypes section
+ of this reference manual and in the Types and Function
+ Specifications section of the Erlang Reference Manual.
+
BIFs can fail for various reasons. All BIFs fail with reason 
badarg if they are called with arguments of an incorrect type.
The other reasons are described in the description of each