Polymorphic record question

[Hans Bolinder]

[Bengt Kleberg:]
> On 2006-06-20 08:17, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> > Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> 
> ...deleted
> >> I'm a little surprised that the "downcasting" hack worked at all,
> >> and I wouldn't expect it to _keep_ working in future releases.
> > 
> > Yeah, I was a bit surprised that it worked, too.  Presumably the 
> > compiler just does a mapping from record field to tuple position number 
> > and doesn't bother checking the first field to make sure that the names 
> > match.
> 
> if you want to discover errors when using records it is best to avoid 
> ''.'' to access the members. 

When given the option 'strict_record_tests' the compiler will emit
code that checks the record tag as well. See compile(3).

Best regards,

Hans Bolinder, Erlang/OTP