[erlang-questions] Frames proposal

[Max Bourinov]

Hi Richard,

Thank you very much for posting your great work!

But the title scared me. "Getting rid of records" - what should I do with
all my code that uses records?

I like the idea of frames a lot. It would significantly simplify my code
and I love this idea.


Best regards,
Max




On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:37 AM, José Valim <jose.valim@REDACTED> wrote:

> The implied mapping takes JSON {id: 4135, title: "title2"}
>> to <{id ~ 4135, title ~ <<"title2">>}>.
>>
>> The bounded size of the Erlang atom table is a vulnerability
>> but there is an EEP to address that; that in itself is a much
>> more urgent issue than frames.
>>
>
> Exactly. In Ruby, for example, since atoms aren't garbage
> collected, converting a JSON from an external source to a hash using atoms
> as keys represents a security vulnerability in a web service, as someone
> could force the "atom table" to fill in completely, so we simply don't.
>
> So until the atom limitation is fixed, we would be better on handling
> JSONs as a dict or something else.
>
> I have read the proposal completely and I think everything is well
> explained and defined. Even though I am not a huge fan of the syntax, I
> think it fits Erlang well. One option that I haven't seen considered is
> still using curly brackets as delimiters and use `{~}` to specify an empty
> frame. This would make the common case (a frame with at least one element)
> easier on the eyes by sacrificing a bit the not so common case (empty
> frame). But again, we are in good hands with whatever the Erlang and OTP
> team decide.
>
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