[erlang-questions] erl_parse.yrl structs?

Richard Carlsson carlsson.richard@REDACTED
Thu Nov 29 23:09:48 CET 2012


On 2012-11-29 23:05, Matthew Harrell wrote:
> : Since nobody has answered: As far as I know, "structs" were an
> : internal experiment at Ericsson, one of the earliest attempts at
> : something-to-replace-records, and they were never shown in public.
> : (I've never seen a working implementation, only discussed it with
> : the OTP guys, probably more than 10 years ago.)
>
> Figured it was probably a relic in there.  We were just a little
> surprised to see them still in there in some form

Feel free to submit a patch that cleans it out. Nowadays, there's no 
need for that kind of commented-out old crap in the sources. Version 
control is there for those who might want to dig it out again.

     /Richard




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