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authorHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2016-06-09 13:18:07 +0200
committerHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2016-06-09 15:13:05 +0200
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Remove support for '...' in Maps types
It is possible that '...' is added later (OTP 20.0), but for now we are not sure of all details.
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-rw-r--r--system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml18
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml
index 9e26e9058d..f17e5df277 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
PairList :: Pair
| Pair, PairList
- Pair :: Type := Type %% notes a pair that must be present
+ Pair :: Type := Type %% denotes a pair that must be present
| Type => Type
TList :: Type
@@ -174,19 +174,13 @@
</p>
<p>
The general form of maps is <c>#{PairList}</c>. The key types in
- <c>PairList</c> are allowed to overlap, and if they do, the leftmost pair
- takes precedence. A map value does not belong to this type if contains a key
- that is not in <c>PairList</c>.
+ <c>PairList</c> are allowed to overlap, and if they do, the
+ leftmost pair takes precedence. A map pair has a key in
+ <c>PairList</c> if it belongs to this type.
</p>
<p>
- Because it is common to end a map type with <c>any() =&gt; any()</c> to denote
- that keys that do not belong to any other pair in <c>PairList</c> are
- allowed, and may map to any value, the shorthand notation <c>...</c> is
- allowed as the last pair of a map type.
- </p>
- <p>
- Notice that the syntactic representation of <c>map()</c> is <c>#{...}</c>
- (or <c>#{_ =&gt; _}</c>, or <c>#{any() =&gt; any()}</c>), not <c>#{}</c>.
+ Notice that the syntactic representation of <c>map()</c> is
+ <c>#{any() =&gt; any()}</c> (or <c>#{_ =&gt; _}</c>), not <c>#{}</c>.
The notation <c>#{}</c> specifies the singleton type for the empty map.
</p>
<p>