[erlang-questions] Maps branch and disclaimers

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Chris King <colanderman@REDACTED> wrote:

> No it's not.  Unless you define the input type as :- type order() :: eq |
> lt | gt.  Well, you can do the same thing with integers in Erlang: :- type
> order() :: -1 | 0 | 1.


Depending on the type system, this is either possible or it is not. A type
system based on success types can allow it, but then you have the problem
that it isn't a traditional type system. If you want a traditional static
type system, then I'd bet that it won't be trivial to handle -1 | 0 | 1 as
a subtype of the integers. You need either dependent types or refinement
types. And that will be a beast to tackle.

I really dislike not using atoms for this. Intuitively and because of the
inherent type complexity (yes, I have a bias here).

-- 
J.
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