[erlang-questions] Compiler warnings on impossible constructs?

[Dmitry Kolesnikov]

Hello,

You would get warning if pattern matching is used.

- Dmitry 

On Jul 3, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Arjan Scherpenisse <arjan@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I today fixed a stupid bug in something I wrote last week, namely, an atom-to-atom comparison which should have been a variable-to-atom comparioon:
> 
> It read: foo =:= bar while it should have read Foo =:= bar.
> 
> So, my question is, can't Erlang detect this kind of situations on compile time? Obviously, the expression foo =:= bar will never be true, right?
> 
> Or maybe I just trust flymake to much instead of doublechecking the stuff I write.. ;)
> 
> Arjan
> 
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