Erlang: An Introduction to Records

Internally Erlang has only two internal compound data types: lists and tuples. Neither of these data types support named access, so creating associative arrays a la PHP, Ruby, or Python is an impossibility. That is, in Ruby, I could do: server_opts = {:port => 8080, :ip => '127.0.0.1′, :max_connections => 10} while in Erlang there's no such [...]