[erlang-questions] -spec tuple variable size

[Dmitry Kolesnikov]

Hello,

Thanks for response!
Let me explain better what I am trying to achieve.
"The shorthand [T,...] stands for the set of non-empty proper lists whose elements are of type T." 
I am looking for similar definition but for tuples.

My application serialises tuples into disk. The size of tuple is unbound but tuple elements a fixed to string, binary, number, boolean or undefined. I cannot use " "|" operator to define as many variants as you like" because number of variants is unlimited. Well practically, I do have a hard limit of 4096 elements per tuple but I am lazy to type in 4096 variants :-) 

- Dmitry

On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:50 PM, Motiejus Jakštys <desired.mta@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Dmitry Kolesnikov
> <dmkolesnikov@REDACTED> wrote:
>> but compiler fails syntax error before: ','
>> 
>> -- CLIP --
>> -type value()     :: string() | binary() | number() | boolean() | undefined.
>> -type entity()    :: [{atom(), value()}] | {field()}.
> 
> These should be fine.
> 
>> -type field()      :: value() | value(), field().
> 
> Maybe you meant
> -type field() :: value() | {value(), field()}.
> 
> ?
> 
> In general, if you want to define tuples of different sizes in -spec,
> you use the "|" operator to define as many variants as you like.
> 
> Likely I don't understand what you are trying to define.
> 
> -- 
> Motiejus Jakštys