List comprehension bug?

[James Hague]

I posted this last month, but it was buried inside of another thread, so
here's another shot :)

You get a bizarre runtime error and no compile time warnings if you don't
bind a variable on the right side of a list comprehension.  For example,
take the standard definition of map:

map(F, [H|T]) ->
    [F(H)|map(F, T)];
map(_, []) -> [].

and change it to:

map(F, [H|T]) ->
    [F(H)||map(F, T)];
map(_, []) -> [].

I did this by accident once, and it took me half an hour to see the typo.
You get an runtime error report indicating that a case expression couldn't
be matched, but I would think this code shouldn't get through the compiler
in the first place.  Or is there a reason to allow list comprehensions with
a single predicate on the right side?

James