[erlang-questions] Cleaning up code

[Donald Steven]

Thanks everyone.  I put the data in a separate module and that works (so 
far) well. But I'll look into ETS tables, other processes, and other 
ideas.  Much appreciated.

Don

On 1/31/2019 9.30 AM, Hugo Mills wrote:
> 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.
>