Are property accessors possible in Erlang records? I ran into a problem in Erlang yesterday that made me think: Is there anyway to implement a property accessor on a record?
5 Ways to Tame the Erlang Beast Becoming an Erlang developer has not always been easy, but over the last couple of years I've learned a few ways to tame the beast. It doesn't need to become any other language, but there's definitely room for improving the developer experience!
An Erlang snippet for easily concatenating binaries and strings There have been a number of times when using Erlang that I've found myself concatenating a list of binaries and strings. I usually resort to manual conversions one way or the other... and I think you'll agree they're both pretty ugly. Here's a short snippet to make it easier!
How to evaluate a string of code in Erlang at runtime Erlang has the ability to read in a string, representing a line of code to execute, at runtime. It can parse it out, evaluate it and return the value. Evaluating Simple Expressions At its most basic, we can just read any expression passed in and execute it. -module(parser). -export(