[erlang-patches] [PATCH 2/3] hipe: Do not auto-import min/2 and max/2

[Mikael Pettersson]

Tuncer Ayaz writes:
 > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > >
 > > I initially thought that these min/max functions were local
 > > function similar to the erlang ones (they didn't use to be
 > > standard so we used to have to duplicate them), but the issue
 > > in hipe_icode_type is that it explicitly imports min/max from
 > > erl_types, and that explicit import triggers a warning due to
 > > the newish auto-import from erlang.
 > >
 > > Given that I think your initial no_auto_import patch is Ok.
 > 
 > Isn't changing min() to erl_types:min() a cleaner change?

No.  The author of that code clearly wanted to use -import to
get direct access to all relevant functions from erl_types.
Un-importing a few of them because of Erlang stupidities makes
the code inconsistent and therefore ugly.

Just use the workaround.