[erlang-questions] Erlang Syntax - again

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

On 12 Mar 2008, at 12:05 am, Christian S wrote:
> Would it be possible to create a pattern matching syntax for some kind
> of association map?

Yes it would.  Joe Armstrong and I have both produced such designs.
I don't know how he intends his to be implemented, but mine manages
to be sufficiently memory-efficient in the usual case to completely
replace existing uses of records, while still being flexible.  It is
*definitely* EEP time.