[erlang-questions] variable exported from case in OTP 18

[zxq9]

On 2015年9月29日 火曜日 20:42:19 zxq9 wrote:
> On 2015年9月29日 火曜日 11:06:48 Martin Koroudjiev wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am confused why this code generates warning with the warn_export_vars
> > option:
> 
> This has been discussed several times (here, for example: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-March/078017.html), and because of the weirdness of case scope being one way (its a scope semantically and conceptually, but its not really) and list comprehensions being another (it really is a separate scope, but that's not how some other languages work) this has been made into a warning.

Martin,

By the way -- something I should have mentioned is that this is almost never a problem in practice because the normal way to deal with lots of declarations within a `case` (usually because you have a large chain of case statements within a single function, so lots of bindings lay around in scope or collide) is to break most of this stuff out into separate functions.

For example, your original code is something I don't think anyone would write:

> test(Mode) ->
>     case Mode of
>         r -> {ok, FP} = file:open("warn.erl", [read]);
>         w -> {ok, FP} = file:open("warn.erl", [write])
>     end,
>     file:close(FP).

Would be more like:

test(Mode) ->
    {ok, FD} = file:open("warn.erl", [mode(Mode)]),
    ok = do_stuff(FD),
    file:close(FD).

mode(r) -> read;
mode(w) -> write.

This bothered me initially because it is hard to imagine this being more natural any other way -- and its pretty weird to need 'r' or 'w' instead of 'read' or 'write' to begin with. But contrived examples are difficult to compare to real situations sometimes.

-Craig