[erlang-questions] A subtyping system for Erlang

Edmond Begumisa ebegumisa@REDACTED
Fri Oct 11 15:21:35 CEST 2019


On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 23:02:02 +1000, Sven-Olof Nystrom <svenolof@REDACTED>  
wrote:

> Björn Gustavsson writes:
>  > 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.
>
> Thanks. I have made a new version available.
>

All good now. Tests run.

Thanks for the swift fix.

- Edmond -

> Edmond Begumisa writes:
>  > 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 of
>  > silently skipping over that target). And like Björn said, from the  
> shell...
>
> Sorry about the problems.
>
>
> Sven-Olof
>


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