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authorPatrik Nyblom <[email protected]>2012-02-03 17:02:07 +0100
committerPatrik Nyblom <[email protected]>2012-02-07 16:01:51 +0100
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Correct docs, comments and dialyzer tests
Update preloaded erlang.beam Removed stray error in dialyzer test suite - different error message with the new specs.
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@@ -1618,6 +1618,10 @@ os_prompt%</pre>
<fsummary>Convert from text representation to an atom</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns the atom whose text representation is <c><anno>String</anno></c>.</p>
+ <p><c><anno>String</anno></c> may only contain ISO-latin-1
+ characterns (i.e. numbers below 256) as the current
+ implementation does not allow unicode characters >= 256 in
+ atoms.</p>
<pre>
> <input>list_to_atom("Erlang").</input>
'Erlang'</pre>