Record selectors (again)

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Jay Nelson <jay@REDACTED> writes:

> 
> Using the current compiler, the following
> shorthand way provides the same safety (and is the way I
> code all my record arguments now):
> 
> unsafely_access_a(#rec{a=Value}) ->
>     Value.
> 

That is my prefered way of writing record expressions;
I almost never use the R#rec.field notation.

But many (most?) Erlang programmers use the R#rec.field notation,
so the compiler should ideally give them too as early fault
detection as possible.

/Bjorn
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB