[erlang-questions] Unique atom with make_ref()?
Thu Feb 4 13:29:02 CET 2010
The primary reason you wouldn't want to create atoms dynamically is that
they are not garbage collected. If an attacker knows you do this, it
should become pretty obvious how to take down your application. I think
it's reasonable to use a ref as a unique identifier, but I'd reserve
atoms for symbolic names.
On 2/4/10 6:27 AM, Daniel Rönnqvist wrote:
> Why sholdn't I use erlang:ref_to_list/1 in application programs? As it
> says here:
> Let's say that I wanted to create a unique atom, isn't this a good way?
> Daniel Rönnqvist
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