     Erlang source code rather than beam. Defaults to beam.
          </dd>
        </dl>
  </p>
 
  <p>Errors and warnings that arise during the compilation are reported on
        the standard output. No monitor file is output unless compilation
        completes with no errors. The output depends on whether the flag <code>erl</code>
        is specified or otherwise.
  </p>
 
  <p><b>Returns:</b> <code>ok</code> if compilation succeeds, <code>{error, Reason}</code> otherwise.</p></p>

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