[erlang-questions] Records referring to each other

[Brujo Benavides @ Inaka]

This seems to work fine for me:

-module(corec).

-record(corec1, {other :: corec2()}).
-record(corec2, {other :: corec1()}).
-type corec1() :: #corec1{}.
-type corec2() :: #corec2{}.

Best regards,

On Jul 8, 2014, at 15:41, ANTHONY MOLINARO <anthonym@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I came across it when trying to compile some generated test code in the thrift code base.  The record definition looks like this,
> 
> -ifndef(_recursive_types_included).
> -define(_recursive_types_included, yeah).
> 
> %% struct coRec
> 
> -record(coRec, {other :: #coRec2{}}).
> 
> %% struct coRec2
> 
> -record(coRec2, {other :: #coRec{}}).
> 
> -endif.
> 
> This returns the error
> 
> test/recursive_types.hrl:16: record coRec2 undefined
> 
> I’m wondering if there is any way to get this to work and include the types, or whether I should modify the generation to not include record types?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Anthony
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