[erlang-questions] specs for fixed length lists

[Richard Carlsson]

On 2012-07-07 13:57, Tony Rogvall wrote:
> Try this:
>
>      -type buttons() :: [boolean() | [boolean() | [boolean() |
> [boolean() | []]]]].

You certainly can _write_ it like that, just like you can write "1+1" 
instead of "2". To a tool like Dialyzer, it will still just be 
interpreted as a (nonempty) list of boolean(). The exact number of 
elements is not tracked. And if you for example try to say "[atom() | 
[integer() | []]]", it will just be the same as saying "nonempty list of 
atom()|integer()" - the order of occurrence of the element types is also 
not part of the list type.

     /Richard