Trouble with init/1 spec

[Magnus Henoch]

Jay Nelson <jay@REDACTED> writes:

> I am having trouble specifying an init/1 function.  This should be a
> problem for most gen_xxx applications that use records for State, so
> I must have not used the right query terms to search the archives.
>
> Here is my init/1 function for a gen_fsm:
>
> -spec init(list()) -> {ok, ?RECONNECT, #twfsm_state{}}.
> 		
> init([Server, Port, User, Pwd]) ->
>     {ok, ?RECONNECT,
>      #twfsm_state{server=Server, port=Port, user=User, pwd=Pwd}}.

My favourite fix for that is to pass a tuple instead of a list.
gen_{server,fsm}:start_link accept any term as the argument, and pass it
unchanged to the init callback function, so I don't really see any
reason to use a list there.

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Magnus Henoch, magnus@REDACTED
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