[erlang-bugs] io:get_line types

[Niclas Eklund]

Hello!

I cannot tell why the io:get_line call didn't follow the documented API, 
but ssh_sample_cli.erl has now been corrected.

Best regards,

Niclas @ Erlang/OTP

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Anders Nygren wrote:

> In io.erl the types specified for get_line/1 is
>
> -type prompt() :: atom() | string().
> -spec get_line(prompt()) -> iodata() | 'eof' | {'error', term()}.
>
> get_line(Prompt) ->
>    get_line(default_input(), Prompt).
>
> And that is also what the documentation states.
>
> But in ssh/examples/ssh_sample_cli.erl there is
>
>    Line = io:get_line({format, "CLI> ", []}),
>
> Is this a secret unsupported invocation or is it an error in the
> io documentation?
>
> If it is unsupported it should not be used in examples.
>
> /Anders
>
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