[erlang-questions] Accessing a single value from MAPS

[Richard Carlsson]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Fred Hebert <mononcqc@REDACTED> wrote:

> On 10/08, Fred Hebert wrote:
>
>> Map.f.'d.e'.#{a@REDACTED=>ok} to go fetch the final 'ok'. Either that or you·
>> support little chaining, but there's still plenty of ways to make this·
>> terrible.
>>
>
> Oh also, if any form of chaining is required, it is now impossible to know
> if Map.3.5 is supposed to be Map.(3.5) or two maps, one with the key 3 and
> the key 5.
>

Since tokenization (which is greedy) happens before parsing, Map.3.5 would
always be parsed as Map.(3.5). You'd have to add parentheses to get
Map.(3).(5).
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