[erlang-patches] Scan "=<<" as something useful

[Sean Cribbs]

I can't count how many times this has bitten me, kudos.


On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've noticed that Erlang/OTP own code tend to be space-free, e.g. {a,
> b} is rather written as {a,b}. Then there is the occasional Bin=
> <<42>> with a space because erl_scan will scans "=<<" as '=<','<'
> instead of '=','<<'. This patch teaches erl_scan how to not do that.
>
> There is no backwards compatibility problem as '=<','<' can't appear
> in valid code.
>
>         git fetch https://github.com/nox/otp.git disambiguate-equal-binary
>
>         https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/disambiguate-equal-binary
>         https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/disambiguate-equal-binary.patch
>
> Regards,
>
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> Anthony Ramine
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Sean Cribbs <sean@REDACTED>
Software Engineer
Basho Technologies, Inc.
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