[erlang-questions] Weird function match semantics

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

"Matthew Dempsky" <matthew@REDACTED> writes:

> I expect the following three expressions to evaluate to 'ok':
> 
>     (fun("X" ++ _) -> ok end)("X").
>     (fun([$X | _]) -> ok end)("X").
>     (fun([$X] ++ _) -> ok end)("X").
> 
> The first two meet my expectations, but the third exits with an
> illegal_pattern exception.  Is this intentional or a bug?

It does seems to be a bug in the evaluator. It works fine in
compiled code. If time permits we will fix it in R12B-0.

/Bjorn
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB