[erlang-questions] Attribute named type

David Sveningsson ext@REDACTED
Wed Feb 18 12:33:55 CET 2009


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mats cronqvist wrote:
> David Sveningsson <ext@REDACTED> writes:
> 
>> Hi, I'm using some user-defined attributes in my modules. I want to use
>> one named type but I doesn't show up with module_info/1 or even
>> module_info/0.
>>
>> Is it reserved by something or am I doing something else wrong? I tried
>> to lookup the predefined attributes but I couldn't find anything about
>> 'type'. I can read the other attributes fine.
> 
>   -type and -spec are reserved. for type declarations and contract
>    specifications, respectively. AFAIK, they're only used by dialyzer.
> 
>   mats
> 

Of course, why didn't I think of that? I am even using -spec in my code.
Maybe the documentation should be updated. Anyway, thanks for your answer!

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