[erlang-questions] tuple modules, or Set:to_list() is official?

[Ulf Wiger]

I think this feature should only be used in places where it was so intended in the first place. Thus, not, for example, with the 'sets' API, since it only works accidentally - not by design.

BR,
Ulf W

Ulf Wiger, Feuerlabs, Inc.
http://www.feuerlabs.com

27 nov 2012 kl. 09:34 skrev Motiejus Jakštys <desired.mta@REDACTED>:

> Hello,
> 
> I just wrote sets:to_list(SomeSet), and stopped for a second. So does
> this[1] really mean that these are equivalent, supported, and both right
> ways to do the same work?
> 
>    set:to_list(SomeSet)
>    SomeSet:to_list()
> 
> Is there an underlying message somewhere "if you can, you not
> necessarily should?"
> 
> (I am aware that dialyzer will not understand me until R16, but this
> doesn't concern me now).
> 
> Answer "go to hell" is also good. That way I will learn that some people
> do hate it and will, and I don't mind programming in subset of Erlang
> for the sake of common good (the same way I appreciate my colleagues
> keeping 80 character line limit just for me).
> 
> [1]: http://www.erlang.org/news/35
> 
> Regards,
> Motiejus
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