[erlang-questions] update_counter on steroids

[Ulf Wiger]

On 7 Aug 2013, at 14:58, Evgeny M <donpedrothird@REDACTED> wrote:

> I miss an ability to increment more than one counter for a given key.

Actually, you *can* do that already.

Eshell V5.10.2  (abort with ^G)
1> T = ets:new(t, [set]).
16400
2> ets:insert(T, {c, 0, 0, 0}).
true
3> ets:update_counter(T, c, [{2,1},{3,10},{4,100}]).
[1,10,100]
4> ets:lookup(T, c).
[{c,1,10,100}]

What I wanted to add was to capture values in previous operations
and use them for derived operations later in the same atomic update.

BR,
Ulf W

Ulf Wiger, Co-founder & Developer Advocate, Feuerlabs Inc.
http://feuerlabs.com



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