Small poll

Hal Snyder hal@REDACTED
Wed Dec 10 20:36:06 CET 2003


Kostis Sagonas <kostis@REDACTED> writes:

> I was wondering whether the Erlang user community would care
> to comment on the following:
>
> In a function like:
>
> 	test(A) ->
> 	    a + 42.
>
> which is either crap (arguably) or a typo (A vs a), how many
> Erlang users:
>
>  1. Are content with the current situation where the compiler
> 	happily compiles this program
>  2. Would like to see a warning, but a .beam file generated
> 	nevetheless
>  3. Would prefer if the compiler in R10 refused to compile it

We don't do that, ergo, no preference.
I'd rather see cond added.

:-)



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