[erlang-questions] binary syntax bug?

[Edwin Fine]

According to my understanding of the documentation (Programming Examples),
this is correct behavior.

1. Default integer size is 8 bits if unspecified.
2. If more data than the size specified is provided, it will be truncated to
the least significant bits. So 01020304 becomes 04 (8 bits).

I had originally reported this as a bug, but was told it is a feature. There
is an EEP to provide a compile-tme option to throw an exception if the
truncation is going to happen.

Sorry you were bitten by this one, too.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Serge Aleynikov <saleyn@REDACTED> wrote:

> Expected:
>
> 1> <<(16#01020304):32/integer>>.
> <<1,2,3,4>>
> 2> <<16909060/integer>>.
> * 3: syntax error before: '<<'
>
> Unexpected:
>
> 1> <<16#01020304/integer>>.
> <<4>>
> 2> <<(16#01020304)/integer>>.
> <<4>>
>
> Serge
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