[erlang-questions] Proposal for is_iolist/1 guard

[Oscar Hellström]

So if it's a list, you'd like to traverse the list and check if each
value is either a binary, another iolist or an integer >= 0 and < 256?

Robert Virding wrote:
> Unfortunately not, as an iolist can also be a nested list strucure
> containing bytes/characters and binaries.
>
> Robert
>
> 2009/5/26 Oscar Hellström <oscar@REDACTED
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>
>     Hi Maxim,
>
>     Wouldn't is_list(X); is_binary(X) be enough?
>
>     Maxim Treskin wrote:
>     > Hello
>     >
>     > I see, erlang does not have is_iolist/1 guard, while iolist() type
>     > used in some places in OTP (i.e. ports interaction).
>     > Is it possible to add this BIF?
>     >
>     > Thank you.
>     >
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