I've been living with 1.4 for a few weeks now.
I am bugged by the new warning:
~~~
warning: variable "int" does not exist and is being expanded to "int()",
please use parentheses to
remove the ambiguity or change the variable name
test/generators/int_test.exs:10
~~~
Partly it is because it makes my code a lot uglier. For example, in quixir,
instead of
~~~elixir
test "two plain types" do
ptest a: int, b: list do
assert is_integer(a)
assert is_list(b)
end
end
~~~
I now have to write:
~~~ elixir
test "two plain types" do
ptest a: int(), b: list() do
assert is_integer(a)
assert is_list(b)
end
end
~~~
Ugh.
Even worse, the premise of the warning seems wrong. It assumes `int` is a
variable, which doesn't exist. But it _does_ know that `int` is a function,
because if I misspell it and put ()s on, I get a compilation error. So why
can't it just do that: is a bare name is encountered that isn't a variable,
just internally tack on the ()s are see what happens. Which I think is the
old way.
Basically, what compelling problem drove this change? It isn't an issue I
ever had before, and the change seems to make my code worse.
Dave
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