[erlang-questions] A few type-related 18.0 questions

[Olivier BOUDEVILLE]

Hello Tuncer,
 
> 1. M1 exists as a file
> 
> 2. M1 call M2:gimme_data/1, say in M1:do_stuff/3
> 
> 3. M2 only exists at runtime without a corresponding file
> 
> 4. The warning is about a call to M2:gimme_data/1 which is
>    unknown because M2 doesn't exist (yet).
> 
> Assuming I got this right, you would add
> 
> -dialyzer({no_missing_calls, do_stuff/3})
> 
> in M1.erl, to avoid the warning.

Indeed, you got it right, however, unless I made clumsy mistakes, in 
M1.erl (using your example functions), no combination of: 

         -dialyzer( { no_missing_calls, do_stuff/3 } ).

and/or 

         -dialyzer( { nowarn_function, do_stuff/3 } ).

prevents Dialyzer from telling that functions like M2:gimme_data/1 are 
unknown. 

I was thinking that functions specified in the -dialyzer attribute are the 
callee ones, not the caller ones (that's why I wanted to see whether we 
could specify a module for them, if they were not M1-local).

Anyway, not a big problem. Maybe in the future separate suppression files 
(listing the warnings to be suppressed regardless of the call site) will 
be supported (supposing it is not supported yet).

Thanks for your time!

Best,

Olivier.


 
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