Alternatives to records

[Richard Carlsson]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Peter Andersson wrote:

> I'm looking for a data representation to use as an alternative to
> Erlang records in a particular application of mine. I want the
> possibility to reference data elements by means of labels rather than
> positions.
> [...]

For small sets of keys (up to a dozen or so), using a list is faster than
other data structures because of its very small traversation overhead.
Using ordered lists of tuples {Tag, ...} and a lookup function utilizing
the fact that the key is the first element and that the lists are ordered
should be a good way of doing it.

	/Richard Carlsson


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