A bug that has been fixed on Elixir v1.3.1.

See: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/4840



*José Valim*
www.plataformatec.com.br
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Founder and Director of R&D

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Wiebe-Marten Wijnja <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I am working on an Elixir library called Tensor
> <https://github.com/Qqwy/tensor> that allows manipulating
> Vectors/Matrices and higher dimension data grids (i.e. Tensors), which are
> implemented as a map of maps inside a struct.
>
> All is fine, but ever so often, I suddenly get the following compilation
> error:
>
> Compiling 4 files (.ex)
>
> == Compilation error on file lib/matrix.ex ==
> ** (MatchError) no match of right hand side value: []
>     (elixir) src/elixir_locals.erl:34: :elixir_locals.local_for/4
>
>
> This stack trace does not really tell me what is wrong. It seems that
> something goes wrong inside the file that does the compilation, rather than
> in the Matrix module
> <https://github.com/Qqwy/tensor/blob/master/lib/matrix.ex>.
>
> Now, when I remove the contents of matrix.ex and recompile, the project
> compiles, but I get some warning about missing module invocations in other
> parts of the code. This is completely reasonable and understandable
> behaviour.
>
> Where it becomes strange is, that when I paste back the exact same
> contents into the matrix.ex file after this, and again recompile, *everything
> works just fine!*
>
> So:
> 1. error on compilation.
> 2. Remove file contents, recompile.
> 3. Re-add file contents, recompile.
> 4. Problem fixed?
> (when I try compiling later, the same problem will appear again)
>
> This is a very curious behaviour, and I think it might hint at a bug.
> Can someone explain what is going on?
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> ~Wiebe-Marten
>
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