[erlang-questions] New module syntax and semantics?

[Gleb Peregud]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> On 2 Jul 2008, at 8:59 am, Juan Jose Comellas wrote:
>
> -record(fs_channel_event, {..lots..,extra}).
> -record(fs_channel_answer_event, {..several..}).
> -record(fs_channel_hangup_event, {..several..}).
>
>> The code that receives the events is unnecessary cumbersome because
>> it needs to work with a record within a record. If this was
>> encapsulated within a parameterized module, it would become much
>> cleaner.
>
> I don't quite see how it would, unless, no, you _couldn't_
> be thinking of making a module instance for each channel?
>
> It's certainly not clear that so heavy a sledgehammer is
> needed for this nut.  Can you provide an example of the
> 'unnecessarily cumbersome code' so we can see if it can
> be clarified another way?

Is it so heavyweight? Aren't parametrized modules instances just a
tuples of type {Mod, Param1, Param2, ...}? Or is calling of functions
from such module too expensive?

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