[erlang-questions] Accessing a single value from MAPS

[Tony Rogvall]

Why not only support atom keys for the dot notation and let more complex keys use maps:get???
That would cover most of my uses of maps ( but far from all )
/Tony
> On 8 okt. 2015, at 16:47, 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. I guess parentheses could make it work. But even with records this was kind of messy.
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