Record Functions

Wait -- before we make game commands, let's take a quick time-out for a public service announcement: records are your friends! And they come with magically created functions. You'll be seeing more of them, so let's get you introduced.

As noted, for every record we define, a bunch of functions are magically created by LFE. These functions let us:

• create records of the given type
• retrieve values from the record
• update values in a record
• extract metadata from a record

The record functions which you will be seeing more of shortly are those of the following forms:

• make-<name> - create a new record
• <name>-<field> - get a record field value
• set-<name> - set a whole record
• set-<name>-<field> - set the value of a record field
• match-<name> - use a record while pattern matching

This is not a complete list, but it's enough get get us started! (see the Reference Guide for more details).

Now we can create some game commands ...