[erlang-questions] For your amusement--why doesn't this compile?

[Alex S.]

It’s considered an unknown module attribute, and those aren’t errors.
> 30 янв. 2017 г., в 18:38, john.hughes@REDACTED написал(а):
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> So why isn’t that reported as an error?
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> John
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> From: Alex S. <mailto:alex0player@REDACTED>
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 4:31 PM
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> Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] For your amusement--why doesn't this compile?
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>> 30 янв. 2017 г., в 18:24, <john.hughes@REDACTED <mailto:john.hughes@REDACTED>> <john.hughes@REDACTED <mailto:john.hughes@REDACTED>> написал(а):
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>> Here’s a behaviour that’s had me tearing my hair today. Consider this module:
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>> -module('Aaargh!!').
>> -define(PLEASE_DONT).
>> -ifndef(PLEASE_DONT).
>> -compile({parse_transform,undefined_parse_transform}).
>> -endif.
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>> It fails to compile, with one simple error message:
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>> 20> c('Aaargh!!').
>> Aaargh!!.erl: undefined parse transform 'undefined_parse_transform'
>> error
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>> If you can see why, you’re more an Erlang wizard than I am!
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> Easy enough, there’s no one-argument define().
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> Define it to true if you don’t care about the value.
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