[erlang-questions] Intel Quad CPUs

[Damien Morton]

Allow me to apologise in advance for my ignorance, but why do edoc type 
specifications look like function calls?

On 9/6/2007 9:47 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> That's what edoc type specifications look like...
>
> On 9/6/07, Damien Morton <dmorton@REDACTED> wrote:
>   
>> Why does the integer type look like a function call?
>>
>> On 9/6/2007 5:16 PM, David Mercer wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday, September 06, 2007, Tony Finch wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> What is the reason for the trailing ()s? It would be nice if the syntax
>>>> had less redundant visual noise.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> So it can tell the difference between an integer and the atom 'integer'?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> To: Kostis Sagonas
>>> Cc: Erlang
>>> Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] Intel Quad CPUs
>>>
>>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Kostis Sagonas wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> In the new language you would write (or preferably change the above edoc
>>>> comment to be):
>>>>
>>>> -spec(foo/2 :: ((integer(), float()) -> atom())).
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> What is the reason for the trailing ()s? It would be nice if the syntax
>>> had less redundant visual noise.
>>>
>>> Tony.
>>>
>>>       
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