[erlang-questions] [Q] dialyzer message: The pattern X can never match the type Y

[Ladislav Lenart]

Kostis Sagonas wrote:
> Ladislav Lenart wrote:
>> Ok, this should be it, except that I think the code is actually
>> executed. Thanks to your explanation, I finally managed to create
>> a module that reports the warning. It is based on the real module.
> 
> Well, this was it.  If you look at your test/0 function, the only call 
> to create_files/2 where the second argument is the 'yrl' tuple is:
> 
>      create_files(Path, {yrl, "f", rebuilt_mod_time}),

Ok, now I finally get it. Thank you all. I somehow misinterpreted
the report to say that rebuilt_mod_time is never used (sorry for
the noise).

Ladislav Lenart