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+ <B>Lo&#239;c Hoguin</B>
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+ <I>Tue Oct 20 15:22:39 CEST 2015</I>
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+<PRE>On 10/20/2015 03:19 PM, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
+&gt;<i> Dear All
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Would there be any reason against using a map instead of a record for
+</I>&gt;<i> the context variable in a Cowboy REST resource?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Quite often I have a few resources doing very similar things in their
+</I>&gt;<i> callbacks, and I'd like to abstract out the similarities into a module -
+</I>&gt;<i> but I don't want to share a record between modules.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Maps seem to be a good fit, and I can't think of any downside
+</I>&gt;<i> (performance hit should be tiny).
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Can anyone give me reasons to stick with records?
+</I>
+The only reason to use records is to keep typespecs information to
+improve Dialyzer's error reporting.
+
+Personally I have no problems going with just maps for all kinds of
+states, even if they are in the same module. This is partly because I
+rely a lot more on tests than on Dialyzer to tell me my program is wrong.
+
+Cheers,
+
+--
+Lo&#239;c Hoguin
+<A HREF="http://ninenines.eu">http://ninenines.eu</A>
+Author of The Erlanger Playbook,
+A book about software development using Erlang
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