Structs (was RE: Record selectors)

[Richard Carlsson]

I've been postponing reading this thread properly since it exploded
on the list, but I've finally got some time to catch up.

Joe wrote:

>   One thing I haven't investigated is the interaction between this and
> the packages stuff.
> 
>   "." (DOT)  is getting  pretty overloaded -  so ~A.tag  might collide
> with the dot notation used  in packages (perhaps Richard could comment
> on this)

Eh, in fact it's not a problem with packages. The problem is that
the Thing.tag notation (where Thing is anything that's not an atom)
is already stolen by the fairly obscure Mnemosyne syntax. (It denotes
a record access to some implicitly-named record - I don't even want
to know the details.)

Anyhow, this reminds me that I actually would like to ask this
eminent list whether the Mnemosyne syntax could be lifted out of
the Erlang language - instead one could have a separate preprocessor
for those that use Mnemosyne, creating Normal Erlang (TM) files
from ".erm" files or whatever. Would this be a too big penalty
on some people out there?

	/Richard



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