[erlang-questions] Dialyzer bugs help

[Sean Cribbs]

Hi,

I'm trying to use dialyzer to remove a few typing bugs from neotoma (
github.com/seancribbs/neotoma/tree/dialyzer) so that generated parsers will
not contain them. However, I've hit a wall and need some help, I'm hoping
someone here will be able to interpret these better than me (see also
https://gist.github.com/seancribbs/8210317):

  Checking whether the PLT neotoma.plt is up-to-date... yes
  Proceeding with analysis...
peg_includes.hrl:85: The created fun has no local return
peg_includes.hrl:86: Fun application will fail since P :: none() is not a
function of arity 2
peg_includes.hrl:201: The created fun has no local return
neotoma.erl:52: Guard test not(is_atom(ModName::atom())) can never succeed
neotoma.erl:124: Function bootstrap/0 has no local return
 done in 0m2.41s
done (warnings were emitted)


The weird thing is, the variable P on peg_includes.hrl:86 is a known type,
but something is causing it to think the type cannot be resolved.

Here's the function in question (the positive lookahead combinator):

-spec p_assert(parse_fun()) -> parse_fun().
p_assert(P) ->
  fun(Input,Index) ->
      case P(Input,Index) of
        {fail,_} = Failure-> Failure;
        _ -> {[], Input, Index}
      end
  end.

Interestingly, that combinator is not called by anything in the parser in
question (a separate issue to be resolved).

Thanks in advance,

Sean Cribbs
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