no_file:none confusing warning message
Kostis Sagonas
kostis@REDACTED
Sun Dec 26 19:07:34 CET 2010
An Erlang/OTP user sent me some code to investigate a warning from the
compiler that he could not locate (in a 1500 line file). I've minimized
it to an an appropriate test case and include it here:
%----------------------------------------------------
-module(no_file_none_warning).
-export([test/1]).
test(Bs) ->
[{B, ok} = {B, foo:bar(B)} || B <- Bs],
ok.
%-----------------------------------------------------
Compiling it produces:
% erlc no_file_none_warning.erl
no_file:none: Warning: a term is constructed, but never used
The warning is confusing for various reasons: first of all it mentions
neither the file name nor the line it occurs, but it would have been
confusing even if it did because one would not know whether it refers to
the {B, ok} terms or to the result of the list comprehension.
Kostis
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