Documentation of what an "MFA" is?

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#1

Is there anywhere that “MFA” is described in detail in the official Elixir documentation? I’ve tried to find it before but was unable to. Am I just missing it somewhere?

(I know what it is I just to have somewhere to link to in my own documentation for anyone unfamiliar with the concept).

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#2

In context of typespecs:

mfa()	{module(), atom(), arity()}

For child_spec() Erlang uses mfargs() to refer to a {M,F,A} tuple (module, function atom, arguments list - Kernel.apply/3, :erlang.apply/3).

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#3

Its a good question! The nearest I could find was an erlang type definition in the docs at http://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/typespec.html

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