We don't have conversion functions in Kernel and they are not even auto imported in Erlang, so we would need strong reasons to import them in Elixir. If discovery is a reason for adding functions to Kernel, then we can end-up with a bloated Kernel quite quickly.
*José Valimwww.plataformatec.com.br <http://www.plataformatec.com.br/>Founder and Director of R&D* On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Norbert Melzer <timmel...@gmail.com> wrote: > `:erlang.binary_to_term/1` and `:erlang.term_to_binary/1` are used in the > erlang world quite often to serialize data for network, disk, or ports in > an efficient manner. > > In the elixir ecosystem they seem to be quite unknown and serialisation > does often happen to and from JSON. > > By including, documenting, and even autoinlining from Kernel (such that > they get auto-imported) I think we could massively increase the awareness > of the elixir community about these functions. > > Bye, > Norbert > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/elixir-lang-core/CA%2BbCVstDKAZZVPVMqgpqNLN2TuxK75 > S5_0kqHTh07vdeA3m%3DsQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CA%2BbCVstDKAZZVPVMqgpqNLN2TuxK75S5_0kqHTh07vdeA3m%3DsQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4KMaYJ-jWARdLCG530-949kPYv14NQ3-9UprUQ84HN9JA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
