dimitarvp
What does this OpenTelemetry typespec mean?
When looking at OpenTelemetry’s docs on the types of attribute values, I stumbled upon this typespec:
unicode:unicode_binary() |
atom() |
number() |
boolean() |
[unicode:unicode_binary() | atom() | float() | integer() | boolean()] |
{unicode:unicode_binary() | atom() | float() | integer() | boolean()}.
Can somebody tell me what does the last one mean? Is it like “a tuple with a single element that can be of the following types”? Or does it mean a “a tuple with an arbitrary amount of elements, each of which can be of the following types”? Or is it something else?
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tristan
Hah, my bad, this is a mistake.
It should just be tuple() and isn’t able to define the types the tuple can contain.
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trisolaran
I tried dyalizing it, and it looks like it means “a tuple with a single element that can be of the following types”. You don’t see single-element tuples that often.
dimitarvp
What weirded me out is that the OpenTelemetry library even uses this syntax at all. Wondered if there’s more to it than I can see (and I ran it through dialyzer as well).
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