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authorBjörn-Egil Dahlberg <egil@erlang.org>2016-12-12 17:00:19 +0100
committerBjörn-Egil Dahlberg <egil@erlang.org>2016-12-12 17:11:54 +0100
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
+
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
that <c>M</c> or <c>N</c>, or both, are zero.
</p>
<p>
- Because lists are commonly used, they have shorthand type notations.
+ Because lists are commonly used, they have shorthand type notations.
The types <c>list(T)</c> and <c>nonempty_list(T)</c> have the shorthands
<c>[T]</c> and <c>[T,...]</c>, respectively.
The only difference between the two shorthands is that <c>[T]</c> can be an
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
</p>
<p>
Notice that the shorthand for <c>list()</c>, that is, the list of
- elements of unknown type, is <c>[_]</c> (or <c>[any()]</c>), not <c>[]</c>.
+ elements of unknown type, is <c>[_]</c> (or <c>[any()]</c>), not <c>[]</c>.
The notation <c>[]</c> specifies the singleton type for the empty list.
</p>
<p>
@@ -184,8 +184,8 @@
The notation <c>#{}</c> specifies the singleton type for the empty map.
</p>
<p>
- For convenience, the following types are also built-in.
- They can be thought as predefined aliases for the type unions also shown in
+ For convenience, the following types are also built-in.
+ They can be thought as predefined aliases for the type unions also shown in
the table.
</p>
<table>
@@ -201,37 +201,37 @@
<row>
<cell><c>bitstring()</c></cell><cell><c>&lt;&lt;_:_*1&gt;&gt;</c></cell>
</row>
- <row>
+ <row>
<cell><c>boolean()</c></cell><cell><c>'false' | 'true'</c></cell>
</row>
- <row>
+ <row>
<cell><c>byte()</c></cell><cell><c>0..255</c></cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell><c>char()</c></cell><cell><c>0..16#10ffff</c></cell>
</row>
- <row>
+ <row>
<cell><c>nil()</c></cell><cell><c>[]</c></cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell><c>number()</c></cell><cell><c>integer() | float()</c></cell>
</row>
- <row>
+ <row>
<cell><c>list()</c></cell><cell><c>[any()]</c></cell>
</row>
- <row>
+ <row>
<cell><c>maybe_improper_list()</c></cell><cell><c>maybe_improper_list(any(), any())</c></cell>
</row>
- <row>
+ <row>
<cell><c>nonempty_list()</c></cell><cell><c>nonempty_list(any())</c></cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell><c>string()</c></cell><cell><c>[char()]</c></cell>
</row>
- <row>
+ <row>
<cell><c>nonempty_string()</c></cell><cell><c>[char(),...]</c></cell>
</row>
- <row>
+ <row>
<cell><c>iodata()</c></cell><cell><c>iolist() | binary()</c></cell>
</row>
<row>
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
<row>
<cell><c>module()</c></cell><cell><c>atom()</c></cell>
</row>
- <row>
+ <row>
<cell><c>mfa()</c></cell><cell><c>{module(),atom(),arity()}</c></cell>
</row>
<row>
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
<cell><c>timeout()</c></cell><cell><c>'infinity' | non_neg_integer()</c></cell>
</row>
<row>
- <cell><c>no_return()</c></cell><cell><c>none()</c></cell>
+ <cell><c>no_return()</c></cell><cell><c>none()</c></cell>
</row>
<tcaption>Built-in types, predefined aliases</tcaption>
</table>
@@ -284,11 +284,11 @@
</row>
<tcaption>Additional built-in types</tcaption>
</table>
-
+
<p>
Users are not allowed to define types with the same names as the
predefined or built-in ones. This is checked by the compiler and
- its violation results in a compilation error.
+ its violation results in a compilation error.
</p>
<note>
<p>
@@ -394,13 +394,13 @@
<pre>
-record(rec, {field1 :: Type1, field2, field3 :: Type3}).</pre>
<p>
- For fields without type annotations, their type defaults to any().
+ For fields without type annotations, their type defaults to any().
That is, the previous example is a shorthand for the following:
</p>
<pre>
-record(rec, {field1 :: Type1, field2 :: any(), field3 :: Type3}).</pre>
<p>
- In the presence of initial values for fields,
+ In the presence of initial values for fields,
the type must be declared after the initialization, as follows:
</p>
<pre>
@@ -409,12 +409,12 @@
The initial values for fields are to be compatible
with (that is, a member of) the corresponding types.
This is checked by the compiler and results in a compilation error
- if a violation is detected.
+ if a violation is detected.
</p>
<note>
<p>Before Erlang/OTP 19, for fields without initial values,
the singleton type <c>'undefined'</c> was added to all declared types.
- In other words, the following two record declarations had identical
+ In other words, the following two record declarations had identical
effects:</p>
<pre>
-record(rec, {f1 = 42 :: integer(),
@@ -430,22 +430,22 @@
</p>
</note>
<p>
- Any record, containing type information or not, once defined,
+ Any record, containing type information or not, once defined,
can be used as a type using the following syntax:
</p>
<pre> #rec{}</pre>
<p>
- In addition, the record fields can be further specified when using
+ In addition, the record fields can be further specified when using
a record type by adding type information about the field
as follows:
</p>
<pre> #rec{some_field :: Type}</pre>
<p>
- Any unspecified fields are assumed to have the type in the original
+ Any unspecified fields are assumed to have the type in the original
record declaration.
</p>
</section>
-
+
<section>
<title>Specifications for Functions</title>
<p>
@@ -459,9 +459,9 @@
else a compilation error occurs.
</p>
<p>
- This form can also be used in header files (.hrl) to declare type
- information for exported functions.
- Then these header files can be included in files that (implicitly or
+ This form can also be used in header files (.hrl) to declare type
+ information for exported functions.
+ Then these header files can be included in files that (implicitly or
explicitly) import these functions.
</p>
<p>
@@ -475,14 +475,14 @@
<pre>
-spec Function(ArgName1 :: Type1, ..., ArgNameN :: TypeN) -> RT.</pre>
<p>
- A function specification can be overloaded.
+ A function specification can be overloaded.
That is, it can have several types, separated by a semicolon (<c>;</c>):
</p>
<pre>
-spec foo(T1, T2) -> T3
; (T4, T5) -> T6.</pre>
<p>
- A current restriction, which currently results in a warning
+ A current restriction, which currently results in a warning
(not an error) by the compiler, is that the domains of
the argument types cannot overlap.
For example, the following specification results in a warning:
@@ -491,9 +491,9 @@
-spec foo(pos_integer()) -> pos_integer()
; (integer()) -> integer().</pre>
<p>
- Type variables can be used in specifications to specify relations for
- the input and output arguments of a function.
- For example, the following specification defines the type of a
+ Type variables can be used in specifications to specify relations for
+ the input and output arguments of a function.
+ For example, the following specification defines the type of a
polymorphic identity function:
</p>
<pre>
@@ -542,8 +542,8 @@
-spec foo({X, integer()}) -> X when X :: atom()
; ([Y]) -> Y when Y :: number().</pre>
<p>
- Some functions in Erlang are not meant to return;
- either because they define servers or because they are used to
+ Some functions in Erlang are not meant to return;
+ either because they define servers or because they are used to
throw exceptions, as in the following function:
</p>
<pre> my_error(Err) -> erlang:throw({error, Err}).</pre>
@@ -555,4 +555,3 @@
<pre> -spec my_error(term()) -> no_return().</pre>
</section>
</chapter>
-