[erlang-questions] R13B prefers reference() to ref()

Magnus Henoch magnus@REDACTED
Wed Apr 22 18:57:56 CEST 2009


I found that R13B has a different opinion on the correct type name for
references than both R12B-5 and R13A: the former accepts only
'reference()', while the latter accept only 'ref()'.  Is this
intentional?  Is there a way to write a type specification that works in
both compilers, apart from using 'any()'?

Example - this compiles with R12B-5 but doesn't compile in R13B:

-module(foo).
-record(foo, {bar :: ref()}).

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