[erlang-questions] Process Dictionary limitations??

[Charles Hixson]

I'm choosing a language to implement a ... well, neural network is 
wrong, and so is cellular automaton, but it gives the idea.  Anyway, I'm 
going to need, in each cell, a few stateful items, e.g. activation level.

When I look at what Erlang can do, I see that the Process Dictionary 
looks as if it would serve my needs, but then I am immediately warned 
not to use it, that it will cause bugs.  These stateful terms will not 
be exported from the cell within which they are resident.  Is this still 
likely to cause problems?  Is there some better approach to maintaining 
state?  (I can't just generate a new process, because other cells will 
need to know how to access this one, or to test that it has been rolled 
out.)

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Charles Hixson