[erlang-questions] Tuples referencing each other problem

[Grzegorz Junka]

Many thanks to all for your responses and suggestions.

To answer your question Richard, I don't actually need a cyclical 
structure. As I mentioned, this is a simplification of a more specific 
problem. I didn't want to describe all the specifics to ask a question. 
I need to design a tree, a variant of a HAMT tree, but which can be 
traversed in both directions, from the root to leafs and from leafs to 
the root (independently, i.e. starting from a reference to a leaf rather 
than recursively). Tuples that reference each other is one solution but 
not the only one fortunately, i.e. I can add ids to each node and use 
another data structure to store the mapping id-node, then store the id 
of the parent in the child.

Thank you for the pointer to the book.

GrzegorzJ


On 18/09/2017 00:53, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> On further reflection, I suppose I should ask:
>  Why is it that you think you need cyclic structures?
>  What do you actually want to *do* with them?
>
> As a matter of curiosity, have you read Okasaki's
> book on functional data structures?
>
> (Didn't someone convert Okasaki's Edison library
> to Erlang at some point?  What happened to that?)
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