[erlang-questions] Reading records with file:consult/1 or erl_eval/2?

[Rusty Klophaus]

Ah, that is unfortunate, but makes sense. Thanks!


On Nov 21, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Christian wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 15:29, Rusty Klophaus <rklophaus@REDACTED>  
> wrote:
>> I've hit an unanticipated snag on step one. I can read basic terms
>> just fine, but I can't make file:consult/1 or erl_eval:expr/2
>> recognize records. Any suggestions? Is this just a known limitation?
>
> It will not work, since records are macros and there is no information
> of how to create a record of a given name at runtime. You will have to
> specify the values of a document by tuple index, and have some kind of
> massage of the data as records and into your record fields. Think
>
> massage({document, X, Y, Z}) ->
>   #document(x=X,y=Y,z=Z);