[erlang-bugs] Document of lists:append/2

[Yoshihiro Tanaka]

Right. I guess I'm questioning the accuracy of the document.


On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Siraaj Khandkar <siraaj@REDACTED> wrote:

> This is just a surprising side effect of dynamic typing. To perform the
> append, the left list is traversed and the right is just blindly used as
> a tail, so it is never introspected and thus never has an opportunity to
> crash.
>
>
> On 2/9/14, 10:30 PM, Yoshihiro Tanaka wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the document :http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/lists.html#append-2
> > It says:
> > append(List1, List2) -> List3, List1 = List2 = List3 = [T], T = term.
> >
> > But considering the following behavior, it does not look correct:
> >
> > 1> [] ++ undef.
> > undef
> > 2> undef ++ [].
> > ** exception error: bad argument
> >      in operator  ++/2
> >         called as undef ++ []
> > 3> [a,b] ++ undef.
> > [a,b|undef]
> > 4>
> >
> >
> > Thoughts ?
> >
> >
> > Thank you
> > Yoshihiro
>
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