[erlang-questions] Type verification at runtime

[Loïc Hoguin]

A while ago I wrote https://github.com/extend/sheriff for doing just 
that. It hasn't been touched in a while so it probably doesn't work with 
all types / at all, but it should be a good start.

On 09/01/2016 11:27 AM, BOUDEVILLE Olivier wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Supposing that I have a “type-as-a-term” description as the one we can
> obtain from ASTs (ex: { type, 1, list,
> [{type,1,tuple,[{type,1,float,[]}, {type,1,boolean,[]}]} ] }, which
> corresponds to the "[{float(),boolean()}]" textual specification), is
> there a simple way to write a function telling, for such specified type
> and for any given term, whether this term is a value of that type?
>
> If it’s clearer, something akin to: -spec check_term_against_type(
> type_description(), term() ) -> boolean().
>
>
>
> Maybe some code already do that?
>
>
>
> Side question: is there already an “Erlang-official” convention to
> express types as terms, i.e the type_description() part ? I guess it
> would be probably inspired from the AST forms, yet removing line numbers
> and possibly (if feasible) the type/user_type distinction.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any hint!
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Olivier.
>
>
>
> Olivier Boudeville
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Loïc Hoguin
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