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Hi,</div>
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No, net is *not* planned to be removed!</div>
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I was talking about the ifdef'ing, nothing else.</div>
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Regards,</div>
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/BMK</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Nalin Ranjan <ranjanified@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nicolas Martyanoff <khaelin@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Micael Karlberg <micael.karlberg@ericsson.com>; Erlang-Questions Questions <erlang-questions@erlang.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Type Specification of net:getnameinfo()</font>
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<div dir="ltr">For this particular function its a delegation to <a href="https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=84aecd19-db35f434-84ae8d82-8692dc8284cb-c2634a3f89b46f21&q=1&e=b2b6d2f6-9676-43a2-901a-9a8708bb6c75&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ferlang%2Fotp%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Ferts%2Fpreloaded%2Fsrc%2Fprim_net.erl%23L160">prim_net:getnameinfo/2</a>
or erlang:error(notsup). Of course, apart from some argument match.
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<div>Interesting. </div>
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<div>And Micael mentioned its destined to be removed in future. ЁЯШС<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 9:13 AM Nalin Ranjan <<a href="mailto:ranjanified@gmail.com">ranjanified@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks a lot Nicolas.
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<div dir="auto">Will go through, and then may be express my hunch that this is a way in which details are either leaking and/or is not sufficient at the level of a type spec. But who knows I endup correcting myself after a little follow up.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 10:05 PM Nicolas Martyanoff <<a href="mailto:khaelin@gmail.com" target="_blank">khaelin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 2021-01-26 21:46, Nalin Ranjan wrote:<br>
> 2. In this particular case of type specification, the only difference is in<br>
> one of the parameters of the function. I was also wondering if we could<br>
> have used a union instead to write the same type spec, it would have been<br>
> simpler?<br>
> For example,<br>
> Instead of writing a type spec like this<br>
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> -ifdef(SOME_PRAGMA_CONDITION)<br>
> SomeVar :: xxx_type().<br>
> -else<br>
> SomeVar :: yyy_type().<br>
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> We could specify the same type spec as:<br>
> SomeVar :: xxx_type() | yyy_type().<br>
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> Any reason we preferred the former over the latter?<br>
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If Erlang is compiled without socket support, some types will not exist at<br>
all. Using the preprocessor[1] makes it possible to provide specifications<br>
with types which actually exist, with or without socket support.<br>
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