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| author | Michał Muskała <[email protected]> | 2018-04-27 12:40:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Michał Muskała <[email protected]> | 2018-04-29 17:03:43 +0200 |
| commit | 5d0874a8f9fd617308d9024783db1e4e24268184 (patch) | |
| tree | ac61f2f0f8d7f7483af9e17df44b49aeb049e695 /erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab | |
| parent | d423a7af502227afcdcf7d2a1efecded85ea95fb (diff) | |
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Introduce is_map_key/2 guard BIF
This complements the `map_get/2` guard BIF introduced in #1784.
Rationale.
`map_get/2` allows accessing map fields in guards, but it might be
problematic in more complex guard expressions, for example:
foo(X) when map_get(a, X) =:= 1 or is_list(X) -> ...
The `is_list/1` part of the guard could never succeed since the
`map_get/2` guard would fail the whole guard expression. In this
situation, this could be solved by using `;` instead of `or` to separate
the guards, but it is not possible in every case.
To solve this situation, this PR proposes a `is_map_key/2` guard that
allows to check if a map has key inside a guard before trying to access
that key. When combined with `is_map/1` this allows to construct a
purely boolean guard expression testing a value of a key in a map.
Implementation.
Given the use case motivating the introduction of this function, the PR
contains compiler optimisations that produce optimial code for the
following guard expression:
foo(X) when is_map(X) and is_map_key(a, X) and map_get(a, X) =:= 1 -> ok;
foo(_) -> error.
Given all three tests share the failure label, the `is_map_key/2` and
`is_map/2` tests are optimised away.
As with `map_get/2` the `is_map_key/2` BIF is allowed in match specs.
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab')
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diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab b/erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab index 276bef2bbb..33738dc20b 100644 --- a/erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab +++ b/erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab @@ -696,3 +696,4 @@ bif ets:whereis/1 bif erts_internal:gather_alloc_histograms/1 bif erts_internal:gather_carrier_info/1 ubif erlang:map_get/2 +ubif erlang:is_map_key/2 |