[erlang-questions] Access to process dictionary

Vance Shipley vances@REDACTED
Sun Dec 23 12:57:55 CET 2018


On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 2:43 PM Eric Pailleau <eric.pailleau@REDACTED> wrote:
> You should however avoid to use process dictionaries if possible.

Yeah, don't do that. If you are new to functional programming and
think the process dictionary is the answer to the question :"where are
the global variables?" you are on the wrong track.
The process dictionary is for OTP and other tools, it's not something
you should be using for general work.

-- 
     -Vance



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