This is a small module that shows how to memoize function calls and arguments. There are some obvious holes in this design, mainly in how errors and exceptions are handled, but it was a fun learning project from when I was first getting into Erlang. Again, gb_trees are used but a more effecient data structure could probably be used. There are no tests…

In #erlang on irc.freenode.net someone one was asking how to optomize a small function that would create a ascii string slug. I’ve seen both how different Ruby and Python frameworks do this and decided to give it a shot. This is what I came up with…

So, you want to help out?

Adding a snippet or tip is probably a lot easier than you think.

Step 1: Fork

Head over to github.com and create a fork of this project. Our project page is github.com/ngerakines/erlangquicktips…