Module attributes

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Roger Price <rprice@REDACTED> writes:

> I'm trying to understand the possibilities offered by module
> attributes.  My source file "test.erl" contains just the two lines:
> 
> -module (test) .
> -bad_binary(<<10,20>>) .
> 
> I'm using Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.6 [source] [hipe], and
> the compiler crashes as follows:
> 
[...]

Corrected. The correction will appear in R10B-8.

> In the Erlang Reference Manual 5.4.6: Clause 4.2 Module Attributes,
> says that a module attribute consists of a tag and a value. -Tag(Term)
> 

I have changed it to say that the values for Module Attributes are
"literal terms".

> Shouldn't clause 4.2 say that a Module Attribute is -Tag(BasicTerm)
> where BasicTerm is an integer, real number, atom or string?
> 

List, tuples, and literal strings are also allowed.

/Bjorn
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB