If you're not matching on variable numbers of arguments, you can just have 1 function sig and a case statement. The thing I dislike most about erlang, besides

If you're not matching on variable numbers of arguments, you can just have 1 function sig and a case statement. The thing I dislike most about erlang, besides the lack of a good macro system, is that the repl is full of annoying special cases, so you have to actually stick your code in a file with a proper module name and compile it in order to test stuff :(