[erlang-questions] How to decide if the type of two variables isthe same record?

[Mats Cronqvist]

Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB) wrote:
> I think it's reasonably safe to write code 
> that does this:
> 
> same_record_type(A,B) ->
>     is_tuple(A)
> 	andalso is_tuple(B)
> 	andalso size(A) == size(B)
> 	andalso element(1,A) == element(1,B).
> 
> That sums up the amount of testing that can
> be done in order to verify that two variables
> are of the same record type. These properties 
> of records are also documented.

   note that many large Erlang projects have design rules that forbids peeking 
into the record structure :>

   mats