[erlang-questions] data sharing is outside the semantics of Erlang, but it sure is useful

[James Hague]

> In Wings3D (which is an application that depends heavily on sharing),
> I use a gb_tree to keep track of values that I want to share.
> I enter each term as both the key and the value and then I just do
> gb_trees:get/2 to retrieve the shared value.

That is an excellent idea!  I was trying to hard to use gb_sets here :)