[erlang-questions] some language changes

Joe Armstrong erlang@REDACTED
Tue May 22 16:02:02 CEST 2007


On 5/22/07, Tony Finch <dot@REDACTED> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Joe Armstrong wrote:
> >
> > 2. Hashmaps (aka associative arrays)
>
> How would this be different from ets?
>
> Tony.

Syntax - you could pattern match them in function heads

foo(#{x=Pattern,y=Pattern, ...}, ...) ->

This has been discussed many times before but not implemented
(not quite true :-) - but any implementation didn't make it to the release

/Joe



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