[erlang-questions] A style question

[Fred Hebert]

Wouldn't using mnesia:activity/2 otherwise mean you've got to wrap every
transaction in a try ... catch yourself though? Is that considered an
annoyance or a wanted behaviour (outside of any gen_*)?

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Ulf Wiger
<ulf.wiger@REDACTED>wrote:

> There is an alternative that actually has a distinct advantage:
>
> mnesia:activity(
>    transaction,
>    fun my_transaction_fun/0)
>
> The advantage is that when tracing, you get much more readable output. A
> disadvantage is that you forego the pleasure of inheriting the environment.
>
> Note also the use of mnesia:activity/2 rather than transaction/1. It has
> much better semantics, and is more flexible.
>
> BR,
> Ulf W
>
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