8.7 Internal Representation of Records
Record expressions are translated to tuple expressions during compilation. A record defined as
-record(Name, {Field1,...,FieldN}).
is internally represented by the tuple
{Name,Value1,...,ValueN}
where each ValueI is the default value for FieldI.
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To each module using records, a pseudo function is added during compilation to obtain information about records:
record_info(fields, Record) -> [Field]
record_info(size, Record) -> Size
Size is the size of the tuple representation, that is one more than the number of fields.
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Record expressions are translated to tuple expressions during compilation. A record defined as
-record(Name, {Field1,...,FieldN}).
is internally represented by the tuple
{Name,Value1,...,ValueN}
where each ValueI is the default value for FieldI.
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To each module using records, a pseudo function is added during compilation to obtain information about records:
record_info(fields, Record) -> [Field]
record_info(size, Record) -> Size
Size is the size of the tuple representation, that is one more than the number of fields.
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