[erlang-questions] Use of unsafe variables...

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

This is not an answer to your question, it is a work around.

Try to always write 'case' like this (please ignore indention):
test() ->
   MISSING = case lists:keyfind(ok, 1, []) of
       {ok,[_]} ->
          ok;
       false ->
          3
   end,
   {ok, MISSING}.


bengt

On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 14:06 +0100, Antoine Koener wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Is this correct or documented ?
> Thanks
> 
> Take this module:
> 
> -module(tsm_case).
> -export([test/0]).
> 
> test() ->
>    case lists:keyfind(ok, 1, []) of
>        {ok,[_]} ->
>           ok;
>        false ->
>           MISSING = 3
>    end,
>    {ok, MISSING}.
> 
> Compile it:
> 31> c(tsm_case).
> ./tsm_case.erl:12: variable 'MISSING' unsafe in 'case' (line 6)
> error
> 
> 
> Now see the difference:
> 
> -module(tsm_case).
> -export([test/0]).
> 
> test() ->
>   case lists:keyfind(ok, 1, []) of
>     {ok,[MISSING]} ->
>       ok;
>     false ->
>       MISSING = 3
>   end,
>   {ok, MISSING}.
> 
> 33> c(tsm_case).
> {ok,tsm_case}
> 34> tsm_case:test().
> {ok,3}
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