[erlang-questions] Newbie question: avoiding massive 'case' statement

[Vance Shipley]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:59:05AM +1100, David Mitchell wrote:
}  try
}    &&&TransactionType&&&:process_request(Request)
}  catch
}    error_logger:info_msg("Unknown transaction type")
}  end
}  
}  where &&&TransactionType&&&:process_request(...) is some "magic code"

	receive
		TransactionType ->
			try
				TransactionType:process_request(Request)
			catch
				_ -> error_logger:info_msg("Unknown transaction type")
			end
	end


Just send the transaction type as an atom.  If you must receive
it as a list use erlang:list_to_existing_atom(TransactionType).

	-Vance