[erlang-questions] Why can't I use variables to denote members of a record?

[Ulf Wiger]

Strange - for me, the attachment to exprecs v 0.3
works:

http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?p=21790#21790

BR,
Ulf W

Michael Turner wrote:
> Oh, wait, I found a version:
> 
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/svnarchive/source/browse/trunk/util/src/exprecs.erl?spec=svn18&r=18
> 
> 
> -michael turner
> 
> 
> On 11/29/2009, "Michael Turner" <leap@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>> Ulf -
>> 
>> The link from your trapexit entry into the erlang mail archives
>> 
>> http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?p=21790#21790
>> 
>> seems to be dead.
>> 
>> Direct search in mail archives at erlang.org on "exprecs" turns up 
>> messages that link to this same entry at trapexit.org, except for
>> the first message you wrote on the subject of exprecs
>> 
>> http://www.erlang.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/4/20050
>> 
>> which says that the exprecs.erl code is attached.  But I don't see
>> how to get that attachment from the archives.
>> 
>> -michael turner
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/29/2009, "Ulf Wiger" <ulf.wiger@REDACTED> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Tony Arcieri wrote:
>>>> I ran into a case where it would really be helpful to do:
>>>> 
>>>> Rec#some_record{Member = Value}
>>>> 
>>>> And the Erlang preprocessor bitches:
>>>> 
>>>> [...] Am I the first one in the history of Erlang to desire
>>>> this behaviour?
>>> Not at all. It has in fact been debated quite a lot over the
>>> years.
>>> 
>>> I once wrote a parse_transform called exprecs that offers a
>>> compromise by letting you 'export' a record, thereby auto- 
>>> generating accessor functions for that record.
>>> 
>>> http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?p=21790#21790
>>> 
>>> I'm guessing that this won't entirely satisfy your needs, but if
>>> so, perhaps you can use it as a starting point for some similar
>>> transformation?
>>> 
>>> BR, Ulf W -- Ulf Wiger CTO, Erlang Training & Consulting Ltd 
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