[erlang-questions] A subtyping system for Erlang

[Edmond Begumisa]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 22:40:04 +1000, Edmond Begumisa  
<ebegumisa@REDACTED> wrote:

> Thanks Björn and Sven,
>
> Indeed, I looked again and found that make compiled all files except  
> con.beam (there's no ../ebin/con.beam --  I should have noticed that  
> before, although make should have at least failed with an error instead

Or rather, erlc should have ...

> of silently skipping over that target). And like Björn said, from the  
> shell...
>
>>>>
>
> 7> make:files(["con.erl"], [{outdir,"../ebin"}]).
> Recompile: con
> con.erl: bad file number
> error
>
>>>>
>
> The previous errors make perfect sense now. It's the code server  
> crashing when trying to find con.beam in all the code paths because of  
> the reserved name.
>
> - Edmond -
>
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 22:29:48 +1000, Björn Gustavsson <bjorn@REDACTED>  
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 2:15 PM Sven-Olof Nystrom <svenolof@REDACTED>  
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The subtyping system contains a module con.erl. If the name conflicts
>>> with some module in the standard library, I could rename it. But as
>>> far as I can tell, there is no module con.erl in the library
>>> "syntax_tools".
>>
>> On Windows, CON is the reserved named for the console. Since file
>> names are case insensitive, "con" also refers to the console, as does
>> "con" with any extension. Thus, "con.beam" is a reference to the
>> console. You should rename your module.
>>
>> /Björn
>>
>>
>
>


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