[erlang-questions] Wanted additions to the maps module?

[Björn-Egil Dahlberg]

I think it's great that you all have many suggestions. It took a month
before the thread got going. =)

maps:take/2 and maps:update_with/3 has already been implemented.

iterators or any variants thereof are a no-go for 19.0.

maps:merge with fun should be the the dict equivalent. However some thought
needs to go into this - a safe way to apply a fun while in midway through a
BIF - doable but needs som redesign. Some composability.

maps:zip/unzip needs to be fleshed before I can consider it.

After 19 I will try to shift focus to iterators and then the compiler,
specifically the match compiler. This is however dependent on other prio
work i have in my backlog.



2016-05-07 23:47 GMT+02:00 Andrew Berman <rexxe98@REDACTED>:

> That's fair, Fred.  And yeah, I can definitely do the two-step process for
> now, but lists:zip/unzip are also just helper functions for what can be
> done with a list comprehension.  I totally understand not bloating the maps
> module, but if it mimicked the lists module with certain functions, I think
> it would be ok, plus there's nothing really new to learn.  In other words,
> if you know what lists:zip does, you know what maps:zip does.  We're not
> redefining what the zip function actually does.
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 4:21 AM Fred Hebert <mononcqc@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> On 05/06, Andrew Berman wrote:
>> >Not sure if this was mentioned yet, but a maps:zip addition like what is
>> in
>> >lists only building a map would be really handy.
>> >
>> I kind of feel it should *not* be there unless we'd be ready to also
>> have a maps:unzip in there; right now lists:zip and lists:unzip can be
>> combined with maps:to_list and maps:from_list to do what you need, but
>> if you add in maps:zip and forget maps:unzip, that feels incomplete to
>> me!
>>
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