[erlang-questions] Types and specs [WAS: [enhancement] string:split/2]

[Tobias Lindahl]

Matthias Lang wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 14, Kostis Sagonas wrote:
> 
>> (If you want to specify an improper list the closer you can get is to 
>> employ the long and yucky type  maybe_improper_list() 
> 
> cons_cell() would have been a more appetising name.

It used to be called cons_or_nil() once upon a time, then it became 
possibly_improper_list() and ended up in maybe_improper_list().

The corresponding type to cons_cell() is the even nicer 
nonempty_maybe_improper_list().

I agree that the names are too verbose, I'm not even sure anymore how it 
happened.

Tobias

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