[erlang-questions] Finding records in List

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

I too consider the use of a record in the function head better. I
apologise for any confusion my first example may have caused.


bengt

 On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 16:17 +0100, David Mercer wrote:
> On Thursday, January 13, 2011, Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> 
> > is_name_and_age( Person, Name, Age ) ->
> > 	(Person#person.name =:= Name) andalso (Person#person.age =:= Age)
> 
> Question about style: is there any preference between what Bengt wrote, and:
> 
> 	is_name_and_age(#person{name = Name, age = Age}, Name, Age) -> true;
> 	is_name_and_age(_,_,_) -> false.
> 
> In fact, I think I like Bengt's better, since it is more clear about intent,
> but I'd have written it as the latter figuring that that was more idiomatic.
> Are records in match specifications out of favor?  (To a certain extent, if
> they are, good.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> DBM
>