<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>One of my reasons for asking is that I started thinking about how to modify sext so that it can support maps in a backward-compatible way.</div><div><br></div><div>In my infinite stupidity, I chose adjacent tags for the different data types, which makes it quite hard to squeeze in a new data type in the middle (since the tags must be in the order corresponding to the ordering between types).</div><div><br></div><div>BR,</div><div>Ulf W</div><br><div><div>On 10 Apr 2013, at 12:56, Björn-Egil Dahlberg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
  
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      <div>How do they sort?</div>
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    Yes, first by #associations, then by keys, then by vaues in key
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    Much like frames (and thus tuples), i.e. like {{K1, K2, .., Kn},
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    EEP will be out shortly. I've been saying within a week for a couple
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          <div dir="ltr">These are the new maps that will be available
            in R17 of Erlang (and in pre-releases before this)
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            <div style="">The are like records only you don't have to
              define the keys in advance, and keys can be any valid</div>
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                  <div>Hi Joe,<br>
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                    I've searched through available text and noticed
                    some "maps", like the following:<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr" style="font-size:10.3467px;font-family:monospace">#{cmd
                      ~ fill_div, id ~ clock, txt ~ current_time()}<br>
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                    What is it, by the way? Where can I find them? <br>
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                    W dniu 10.04.2013 08:40, Joe Armstrong pisze:<br>
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                          <div>The 2'nd edition of programming Erlang is
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                             <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://pragprog.com/book/jaerlang2/programming-erlang" target="_blank">http://pragprog.com/book/jaerlang2/programming-erlang</a><br>
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                          <div>Cheers</div>
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