[erlang-questions] ANN: wave.erl

[Kostis Sagonas]

Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Kostis Sagonas <kostis@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>> Rather than writing all the above, which is just words in a mail, why don't
>> you add the following to the file which is machine-checkable documentation
>> which is now part of the code?
> 
> What tools do currently make use of this information, and how? I guess
> the dialyzer does.

Mainly dialyzer uses this information.

Pretty soon (quite possibly in R14) edoc will also be in a position to 
use this information for generating documentation for the code.

> If I write a spec such the function and spec are
> not matching, then what tool will report the discrepancy? Dialyzer?

Yes. But it is better to see it with your own eyes. Try it!

Kostis