record problem

[Göran Båge]

Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> On 2006-06-18 12:07, bryan rasmussen wrote:
> 
>> Why does this
>>
>> -record(a,{b="b",c="c"}).
>> give this
>>
>> =ERROR REPORT==== 18-Jun-2006::12:03:20 ===
>> Error in process <0.168.0> with exit value: 
>> {{badmatch,"b"},[{erl_eval,expr,3}]}
> 

My guess is that Bryan tried this in the erlang shell which
doesnt know about records and would interpret this as an
arithmetic expression.

> 
> it does not give an error in Erlang (ASYNC_THREADS,HIPE) (BEAM) emulator 
> version 5.5
> 
> is there any other code surrounding the record definition?
> 
> 
> bengt


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