[erlang-questions] why the application env is only accepting atoms as Key

[Daniel Abrahamsson]

Here is a recent discussion of the matter:
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-July/080293.html

//Daniel

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@REDACTED>
wrote:

> When trying to upgrade an application, we noticed on a project that the
> application `env` settings is only accepting atoms as keys:
>
>
> https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/maint/lib/sasl/src/systools_make.erl#L685-L689
>
> and
>
>
> https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/maint/lib/sasl/src/systools_make.erl#L2000-L2002
>
>
> Is there any reason for that? Why not accepting any term there?
>
> - benoit
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