[erlang-questions] Irregular list

[Ladvánszky Károly]

Thanks everybody for the help.

 

Sorry for the confusing term ‘open list’;  I wished to refer to
Lisp’s/Scheme’s unterminated lists.

 

LKaroly

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From: Ladvánszky Károly [mailto:lk@REDACTED] 
Sent: 2009. február 12. 16:10
To: 'erlang-questions@REDACTED'
Subject: Irregular list

 

Just getting acquainted with this wonderful system, I’ve run into the
following issue:

 

The shell seems to accept a structure like this: [a | b].

 

is_list([a | b]) returns true but length([a | b]) raises an exception.

 

Is it like an “open list” found in some programming languages?

 

 

 

Any help would be appreciated,

 

LKaroly

 

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