[erlang-questions] Cleaning up code

[Hugo Mills]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 09:20:43AM -0500, Donald Steven wrote:
> I need several large maps whose data will need to be accessed and
> updated in a number of functions.  I've defined them in main() just
> to get started, but they're so extensive that they swamp the
> readability of main().  I haven't found a way to "include" them as
> 1) erlang won't accept simple file inclusion anywhere (like m4) and
> 2) my attempt to define a map in an .hrl file (like a -record
> definition), as in:
> 
> keywords = #( ...}.  or Keywords = #( ...}.
> 
> just produces error messages.  I could use m4, but ...
> 
> Any suggestions?  Thanks.

   It's not clear how you're using the data, but that sounds like
either a ETS table, or a separate server process to manage the data in
each map.

   If you're only concerned about the size of the initialisation for
each map, then you could just define them in a function and call that
in your main():

main() ->
    Map1 = init_map1(),
    ...


init_map1() ->
    #{a => 3, b => 4, ...}.

   Hugo.

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