[erlang-questions] Wrong advertised spec of lists:append/2

Pierre Fenoll pierrefenoll@REDACTED
Thu Mar 28 14:53:00 CET 2013


The spec says both arguments and the result are lists.
Indeed there is a contradiction with said spec. Isn't that a problem?

On 28 March 2013 14:42, Adam Rutkowski <hq@REDACTED> wrote:

>
> On 28 Mar 2013, at 14:36, Pierre Fenoll wrote:
>
> > As per the doc, the spec of lists:append/2 is ([term()], [term()]) ->
> [term()].
> >
> > However, a = lists:append([], a).
>
> If the spec was ([term()], term()) then maybe ;-)
> Also, the documentation (and implementation as well) clearly states it's
> equivalent to A ++ B.
>
> A.
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