[erlang-questions] Maps branch and disclaimers

[Anthony Ramine]

‘<-‘ can’t be used for binary generators so it can’t be generic.

And lists:map/2 doesn’t help for non-skipping bit strings generators, nor it helps for bit string comprehensions.

-- 
Anthony Ramine

Le 28 oct. 2013 à 17:13, Pierre Fenoll <pierrefenoll@REDACTED> a écrit :

> IMHO I would love to think of '<-' as a generic generator, which generates elements out of its rhs without any regard to the type.
> Otherwise '<-' would not be as not-type-specific as most (every?) other operator is, in this dynamic language.
> I mean, one could also think of tuple-comprehensions (though I don't see why immediately, but I am not all-seeing).
> 
> Anthony, fcall()#{ k := new_val } for example? Modify a key's value just after a call.
> 
> Regarding not skipping items in *-comprehensions: well, that's what lists:map/2 is for.
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> 
> Cheers,
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> Pierre Fenoll
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> 
> On 28 October 2013 16:07, Jesper Louis Andersen <jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@REDACTED> wrote:
> I would avoid any ‘:’ character in the new operator because Jesper once had the idea of introducing strict generators with ‘<:-‘ and ‘<:=‘, which would not skip items that doesn’t match (e.g. "[ X || {ok, X} <:- [{error,Reason}] ]" would crash).
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> Yes. It is a problem I have encountered quite often, where the code throws away terms deliberately and you have no way to fix this but to use a standard lists:map/2 call.
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> J.
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