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

[Siraaj Khandkar]

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