[erlang-bugs] More compiler errors

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Kostis Sagonas <kostis@REDACTED> wrote:

> For example, the first two programs I would not expect any sensible
> programmer to write, and IMO these Erlang programs should be burned in hell.


I don't think I agree. The purpose of a compiler is to produce correct
code. If I can provoke the compiler to generate internal errors, it is
often a latent problem with the compiler itself. At least disallowing the
programs would be a start because it would encode what invariants (static
semantics) I expect of well-formed programs.


-- 
J.
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