Small poll

[Chris Pressey]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:25:44 +0100 (MET)
Kostis Sagonas <kostis@REDACTED> wrote:

> 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

5. Would prefer it returned the atom 'a42'  (PerLang/I!  Yesss!!!)

(Dark humour aside... I think #2 makes the most sense.)

-Chris