Are recursive record definitions allowed?

[Brian Williams]

I'm working on some algorithm analysis and am trying to define a
fairly simple binary search tree with a record definition:
-record(btreenode, {left = #btreenode{}, right = #btreenode{}, value}).
I get:
record btreenode undefined

Should I just not bother to specify the type of left and right and
just enforce the record type in code?


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