<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Anthony Ramine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:n.oxyde@gmail.com" target="_blank">n.oxyde@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
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I wrote a patch that allows dotted atoms everywhere in the syntax but record expressions, where they would be ambiguous. I wrote no tests as I have no idea where they should go. Furthermore, I think that maybe the pretty-printer should be patched to not quote dotted atoms outside record expressions.<br>
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git fetch <a href="https://github.com/nox/otp.git" target="_blank">https://github.com/nox/otp.git</a> restore-dotted-atoms<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:maint...restore-dotted-atoms" target="_blank">https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:maint...restore-dotted-atoms</a><br>
<a href="https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:maint...restore-dotted-atoms.patch" target="_blank">https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:maint...restore-dotted-atoms.patch</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Rejected.</div><div style><br></div><div style>The Technical Board did discuss the matter of dots in atoms and</div><div style>decided that the support should be removed along with packages.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>/Bjorn</div><div> </div></div>-- <br>Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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