[erlang-questions] Help - Can I stop this warning?

[G Bulmer]

Doh!

Lennart, thank you, that's the kind of solution I was expecting, but  
didn't think of !-)
So it's now:
-define(IOFUN(), io:format("~s: ", [begin {_,{_,F,_}} = process_info 
(self(),current_function), F end])).

Tim, I hadn't thought of your suggestion, so thank you for pointing  
it out:
-define(IOFUN(), io:format("~s: ", [element(2, element(2, process_info 
(self(),current_function)))])).
Is it in some way 'better' to avoid the pattern match, or is it  
simply personal preference?

I didn't ask my question well. I'd realised the variable F was  
getting pushed into a higher scope, but I had thought that 'case ...  
end' established a new scope, so I didn't/don't understand why F was  
exported, or what to do about it.

I had tried:
-define(IOFUN(), io:format("~s: ",
     [begin case process_info(self(),current_function) of {_,{_,F,_}}  
->F end end])).
thinking the 'begin ... end' would kill the scope issue, but that  
didn't stop the warning, and F was still exported to the substitution  
site!

test1() ->
     ?IOFUN(), io:format("see if F is bound~n"),
     F = wibble.
fails with a ...  {{badmatch,wibble}, error.

Can anyone explain why/how  "case ... of ... -> F end"  and  "begin  
case ... of ... -> F end end"  export F, yet
"[begin {_,{_,F,_}} = process_info(self(),current_function), F end]"
does not?
I'd expect all three to simply return the *value* of F as the value  
of the case ... end/begin ... end expressions.

Garry

> Hi, the easiest way would be to refrain from using a case when you  
> don't have
> more than one branch.
>
> Try
>
> [begin  {_,{_,F,_}}=process_info(self(),current_function), F end]
>
> Another reason not to use your suggestion is that define leads to  
> that the
> subtituation gets copied into the locations where you use ?IOFUN.  
> And since F
> actually gets exported (since it becomes bound in all (the only)  
> branches)
> it might very well mess with another varible F in the variable  
> scoop where
> you use IOFUN. What I am trying to say in too many words is that  
> there is
> a very good reason for the warning to be there :-)
>
> Best Regards
> Lennart
>
>
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> Subject: [erlang-questions] Help - Can I stop this warning?
>
> I have been playing with this macro to print the current functions  
> name:
>
> -define(IOFUN(), io:format("~s: ", [case process_info(self
> (),current_function) of {_,{_,F,_}} ->F end])).
>
> Unfortunately, I get this irritating warning on *every* function,  
> on the first use of ?IOFUN():
> ./script.erl:34: Warning: variable 'F' exported from 'case' (line  
> 31) ...
>
> Can someone suggest how I get rid of it?
>
> Garry
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