[erlang-questions] Typed records and erl_parse

[Christian S]

On 12/5/06, Tobias Lindahl <Tobias.Lindahl@REDACTED> wrote:
> Short version:
>
> Who would suffer if we changed the format of the record attribute given
> by erl_parse?

The changes as talked about in this thread I take it?

http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2006-November/023930.html

Is this something erl_parse will accept to parse but throw away? Will
these type annotations spread out in a future to be used in other
places in the erlang language? Perhaps as shorthand for type-guards
when pattern matching?