Construct for associative arrays

[wboeke@REDACTED]

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From: W.Boeke, Lucent Technologies, boeke@REDACTED
To  : Erlang discussion group, erlang-questions@REDACTED
Date: febr 8, 1999
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Hi,

Suppose I have a record:

  -record(aap,{ johnnie }).

a function:

  name() -> johnnie.

and a variable assignment:

  Var = #aap{ johnnie=mad },

Now my question is: would it be TERRIBLE difficult to implement Erlang such
that I could address a record member as follows:

  Var#aap.name()

This way, working with associative arrays would become very simple. And these
data structures are quite useful, once you are accustomed to them.


Kind regards,
Wouter Boeke