[erlang-questions] specs for fixed length lists

[Tony Rogvall]

On 8 jul 2012, at 21:50, Richard Carlsson wrote:

> On 07/08/2012 11:48 AM, Tony Rogvall wrote:
>> BTW
>> The 1+1 = 2 example was totally silly in my opinion.
> 
> I was just trying to make the point that in the type notation, the elements of a list are the union of all possible types of elements that can occur anywhere in the list. This discards all information about how many elements there may be in a list, and in which order. In that way, it's exactly like how e.g. "3" may represent any and all of "1+2", "2+1", "1+1+1", and "3".
> 
Point taken!
But I was totally out of context :-)
Sorry about that.

/Tony



>    /Richard

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