[erlang-questions] Dialyzer warning: variable can never match since previous clauses completely covered the type

[David Sveningsson]

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Hi, I have an issue with a dialyzer warning, see the test-case below. I
don't know if I'm doing something wrong or not but I cant fix the
warning. Any ideas?


- -module(test).
- -export([start/0]).

- -spec foo() -> ok | {error, reason}.
foo() ->
	case random:uniform(10) of
		N when N > 5 -> ok;
		_ -> {error, foobar}
	end.

start() ->
	{A,B,C} = now(),
	random:seed(A,B,C),
	
	R = case foo() of
		ok ->
			ok;
		Error ->
			Error
	end,
	io:format("R: ~p~n", [R]),
	init:stop(0).



# dialyzer -c test.erl --src
  Checking whether the PLT /Users/ext/.dialyzer_plt is up-to-date... yes
  Proceeding with analysis...
test.erl:18: The variable Error can never match since previous clauses
completely covered the type 'ok'
Unknown functions:
  init:stop/1
 done in 0m0.26s
done (warnings were emitted)

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