[erlang-questions] custom type specifier

[Costin-Tiberiu RADU]

Thanks for the information.
Yes, I would like to use the custom type specifiers in my modules.

Regards
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Costin-Tiberiu RADU <costin.tiberiu.radu@REDACTED>


În data de Mi, 13-05-2009 la 15:57 +0200, Robert Virding a scris:
> 2009/5/13 Davide Marquês <nesrait@REDACTED>
> 
>         Hi there!
>         
>         
>                 Where can I find some indications on how to define a
>                 type specifier so in my module I can have some new
>                 types like:
>                 
>                 <<Value:Size/huffman,..>>
>                 or
>                 <<Value:Size/fibonacci,..>>
>                 or
>                 <<Value:Size/base64,...>>
>                 or any custom encoding method for that matter.
>                 
>                 My question may seem (and probably is) pretty trivial,
>                 but I am new in writting code with erlang and some
>                 things are not pretty easy to find if you do not know
>                 where to look.
>                 I have looked into unicode.erl (in R13B source code)
>                 but haven't seen anything relevant to answer my
>                 question.
>         
>         I'll assume your don't really want to extend the
>         language/compiler to support those new type specifiers and
>         only want them *in your modules*. :)
>         With that in mind, parse_transform looks like the tool for the
>         job!
>         Using it you could specify those new fancy types and have them
>         turned into the [existing] 'binary' type on compilation
>         (more experience folks, what do ya think?).
> 
> I suppose it depends on whether the type specifiers are expected to
> *do* anything. If so there are no provisions for adding custom
> encodings. It is not trivial to add encodings to the handling of
> binaries. There might also be some difficulty in describing what they
> are supposed to do.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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