[erlang-questions] What's this mean:[1|1]?It's it a bug?

[Ivan Uemlianin]

[1|1] is an "improper list", in other words, a list that doesn't end 
with an empty list [].  They're valid, but not terribly safe:

   1> is_list([1|1]).
   true
   2> length([1|1]).
   ** exception error: bad argument
        in function  length/1
           called as length([1|1])

I don't know if there's any use for them.

Ivan


On 03/07/2013 11:03, 饕餮 wrote:
> One of my new teammate found that this expression can work like
> list:nth(1,[1|1]) is legal.
> And the is_list([1|1]) is true
> so what's this expression mean or it's just like some bug?
>
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