Thank you for your quick reply!

Glad to hear that this bug is known and fixed. :-)

~Wiebe-Marten

On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 3:26:35 PM UTC+2, José Valim wrote:
>
> A bug that has been fixed on Elixir v1.3.1.
>
> See: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/4840
>
>
>
> *José Valim*
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>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Wiebe-Marten Wijnja <
> [email protected] <javascript:>> 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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