[erlang-bugs] scarce dialyzer message "illegal declaration of..." with records

[Samuel]

Hello,

If you run dialyzer in the attached file it will fail with next message:

Analysis failed with error: Illegal declaration of #state{parent}

In the example the problem is pretty obvious, there is a mismatch
between the declared type of the 'parent' field and the function
specification. However in a larger example I found it very hard to
spot. Even worse, if dialyzer is analysing a list of modules it
wouldn't say what module caused the error. (Actually, I ran a very
boring 'shrinking' binary process of deleting code sections until I
found the cause of the error, which happened to be a type annotation
generated by typer before I started refining the specs).

I saw a couple other mails related to illegal declarations but they
both were issues with polymorphic types, so I guess this is something
different.

Regards
-- 
Samuel
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